How to create an SQS queue from AWS Console

Login to the AWS Management Console and navigate to SQS service. If you are using SQS for the first time, you will see the ‘Create queue’ option in a ‘Get started’ window as shown in the below image. Choose the ‘Create queue’ option.

Choose if you’d like to create a ‘Standard’ queue of a ‘FIFO’ queue and provide a name for the queue. AWS SQS queue name can have only alphanumeric characters and hyphen and underscore with a size limit of 80 characters. Provide a name as per the guidelines.


You may leave all the other configuration options as default or edit them as per your need.


Access policy configuration values can be left as default as well.

By default, the encryption of queue messages is disabled.You may choose to encrypt the messages.

Choose ‘Create queue’ and you’ll see the confirmation message that the queue has been created successfully as in the below image.

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