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>>mpweih+(OP)
Has anyone ever measured the latency of the sending message to SQS? I was using with ELB in t2.medium instances, and my API (handle => send message to queue => return {status: true}) response times were around 150 - 300 ms and replaced SQS with RabbitMQ, and it went down to around 75-100 ms.

Does anyone think that sending message to SQS is slow?

Edit: With this update, I was able to process almost 3 x requests with the same resources, and it lowered my bills quite a lot.

For example my SQS bill for last month

Amazon Simple Queue Service EUC1-Requests-Tier1 $0.40 per 1,000,000 Amazon SQS Requests per month thereafter 290,659,096 Requests $116.26

it went to 0, and ec2 cost went down as well because ELB spun up fewer instances that I could handle more quest with the same resources.

This was my experience with SQS. I just wanted to share it.

>>yilugu+uE
Were you running RabbitMQ clustered with persistent queues?

I don't think SQS is primarily for low-latency messaging, but rather a provided high available MQ with very little hassle.