AWS has finally made SQS a viable queuing solution
11 days ago
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- AWS introduced Amazon SQS fair queues to mitigate noisy neighbor impact in multi-tenant systems.
- Fair queues improve application resilience and reduce operational overhead while maintaining quality of service.
- Multi-tenant systems face challenges when a single tenant (noisy neighbor) overutilizes shared resources like queues.
- Amazon SQS fair queues automatically prioritize messages from quiet tenants when a noisy neighbor is detected.
- Fair queues require adding a tenant identifier (MessageGroupId) to messages but no changes to consumer code.
- New Amazon CloudWatch metrics help monitor fair queue behavior, including noisy and quiet groups.
- An example application is provided to observe fair queue behavior with varying message volumes.
- Fair queues maintain low dwell times for quiet tenants without limiting throughput or requiring complex solutions.