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>>mpweih+(OP)
One downside of SQS is that it doesn't support fan-out, for eg. S3->SQS->multiple consumers. The recommendation instead seems to be to first push to SNS, and then hookup SQS/other consumers to it. Kinesis/Kafka would appear to be better suited for this (since they support fan-out like SNS and are pull-based like SQS), but aren't as well supported as SNS/SQS (you can't push S3 events directly to Kinesis for eg.) Can someone from AWS comment on why that is? Also, related: when can we expect GA for Kafka (MSK)?

>>hexene+ci
I do S3 -> SNS -> SQS. I don't see why I would use Kinesis instead. The SNS bit is totally invisible to the consumers (you can even tell SNS not to wrap the inner message with the SNS boilerplate), downstream consumers just know they have to listen to a queue.

I don't see a downside to this approach. Perhaps some increased latency?