If you don't specify the
FifoQueue
attribute, Amazon SQS creates a standard queue.
You can't change the queue type after you create it and you can't convert
an existing standard queue into a FIFO queue. You must either create a new
FIFO queue for your application or delete your existing standard queue and
recreate it as a FIFO queue. For more information, see
Moving From a Standard Queue to a FIFO Queue
in the
Amazon SQS Developer Guide
.
If you don't provide a value for an attribute, the queue is created with the
default value for the attribute.
If you delete a queue, you must wait at least 60 seconds before creating a
queue with the same name.
To successfully create a new queue, you must provide a queue name that adheres to the
limits
related to queues
and is unique within the scope of your queues.
After you create a queue, you must wait at least one second after the queue is
created to be able to use the queue.
To retrieve the URL of a queue, use the
GetQueueUrl
action. This action only requires the
QueueName
parameter.
When creating queues, keep the following points in mind:
If you specify the name of an existing queue and provide the exact same names
and values for all its attributes, the
CreateQueue
action will return the URL of the
existing queue instead of creating a new one.
If you attempt to create a queue with a name that already exists but with
different attribute names or values, the
CreateQueue
action will
return an error. This ensures that existing queues are not inadvertently
altered.
Request Syntax
"
Attributes
":
{
"
string
" : "
string
"
"
QueueName
": "
string
",
"
tags
":
{
"
string
" : "
string
"
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see
Common Parameters
.
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
A map of attributes with their corresponding values.
The following lists the names, descriptions, and values of the special request
parameters that the
CreateQueue
action uses:
DelaySeconds
– The length of time, in seconds, for which the
delivery of all messages in the queue is delayed. Valid values: An integer from
0 to 900 seconds (15 minutes). Default: 0.
MaximumMessageSize
– The limit of how many bytes a message
can contain before Amazon SQS rejects it. Valid values: An integer from 1,024 bytes
(1 KiB) to 262,144 bytes (256 KiB). Default: 262,144 (256 KiB).
MessageRetentionPeriod
– The length of time, in seconds, for
which Amazon SQS retains a message. Valid values: An integer from 60 seconds (1
minute) to 1,209,600 seconds (14 days). Default: 345,600 (4 days). When you
change a queue's attributes, the change can take up to 60 seconds for most of
the attributes to propagate throughout the Amazon SQS system. Changes made to the
MessageRetentionPeriod
attribute can take up to 15 minutes and
will impact existing messages in the queue potentially causing them to be
expired and deleted if the
MessageRetentionPeriod
is reduced below
the age of existing messages.
Policy
– The queue's policy. A valid AWS policy. For more
information about policy structure, see
Overview of AWS IAM
Policies
in the
IAM User Guide
.
ReceiveMessageWaitTimeSeconds
– The length of time, in
seconds, for which a
ReceiveMessage
action waits
for a message to arrive. Valid values: An integer from 0 to 20 (seconds).
Default: 0.
VisibilityTimeout
– The visibility timeout for the queue, in
seconds. Valid values: An integer from 0 to 43,200 (12 hours). Default: 30. For
more information about the visibility timeout, see
Visibility Timeout
in the
Amazon SQS Developer
Guide
.
The following attributes apply only to
dead-letter queues:
RedrivePolicy
– The string that includes the parameters for the dead-letter queue functionality
of the source queue as a JSON object. The parameters are as follows:
deadLetterTargetArn
– The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the dead-letter queue to
which Amazon SQS moves messages after the value of
maxReceiveCount
is exceeded.
maxReceiveCount
– The number of times a message is delivered to the source queue before being
moved to the dead-letter queue. Default: 10. When the
ReceiveCount
for a message exceeds the
maxReceiveCount
for a queue, Amazon SQS moves the message to the dead-letter-queue.
RedriveAllowPolicy
– The string that includes the parameters for the permissions for the dead-letter
queue redrive permission and which source queues can specify dead-letter queues as a JSON object. The parameters are as follows:
allowAll
– (Default) Any source queues in this AWS account in the same Region can
specify this queue as the dead-letter queue.
denyAll
– No source queues can specify this queue as the dead-letter
queue.
byQueue
– Only queues specified by the
sourceQueueArns
parameter can specify
this queue as the dead-letter queue.
sourceQueueArns
– The Amazon Resource Names (ARN)s of the source queues that can specify
this queue as the dead-letter queue and redrive messages. You can specify this parameter only when the
redrivePermission
parameter is set to
byQueue
. You can specify up to 10 source queue ARNs.
To allow more than 10 source queues to specify dead-letter queues, set the
redrivePermission
parameter
to
allowAll
.
The dead-letter queue of a
FIFO queue must also be a FIFO queue. Similarly, the dead-letter
queue of a standard queue must also be a standard queue.
The following attributes apply only to
server-side-encryption
:
KmsMasterKeyId
– The ID of an AWS managed customer master
key (CMK) for Amazon SQS or a custom CMK. For more information, see
Key Terms
. While the alias of the AWS managed CMK for Amazon SQS is
always
alias/aws/sqs
, the alias of a custom CMK can, for example,
be
alias/
MyAlias
. For more examples, see
KeyId
in the
AWS Key Management Service API
Reference
.
KmsDataKeyReusePeriodSeconds
– The length of time, in
seconds, for which Amazon SQS can reuse a
data key
to
encrypt or decrypt messages before calling AWS KMS again. An integer
representing seconds, between 60 seconds (1 minute) and 86,400 seconds (24
hours). Default: 300 (5 minutes). A shorter time period provides better security
but results in more calls to KMS which might incur charges after Free Tier. For
more information, see
How Does the Data Key Reuse Period Work?
SqsManagedSseEnabled
– Enables server-side queue encryption
using SQS owned encryption keys. Only one server-side encryption option is
supported per queue (for example,
SSE-KMS
or
SSE-SQS
).
The following attributes apply only to
FIFO (first-in-first-out)
queues
:
FifoQueue
– Designates a queue as FIFO. Valid values are
true
and
false
. If you don't specify the
FifoQueue
attribute, Amazon SQS creates a standard queue. You
can provide this attribute only during queue creation. You can't change it for
an existing queue. When you set this attribute, you must also provide the
MessageGroupId
for your messages explicitly.
For more information, see
FIFO queue logic
in the
Amazon SQS Developer
Guide
.
ContentBasedDeduplication
– Enables content-based
deduplication. Valid values are
true
and
false
. For
more information, see
Exactly-once processing
in the
Amazon SQS Developer
Guide
. Note the following:
If you aren't able to provide a
MessageDeduplicationId
and you enable
ContentBasedDeduplication
for your queue, Amazon SQS
uses a SHA-256 hash to generate the
MessageDeduplicationId
using the body of the
message (but not the attributes of the message).
If you don't provide a
MessageDeduplicationId
and
the queue doesn't have
ContentBasedDeduplication
set, the action fails with an error.
If the queue has
ContentBasedDeduplication
set,
your
MessageDeduplicationId
overrides the generated
When
ContentBasedDeduplication
is in effect, messages
with identical content sent within the deduplication interval are
treated as duplicates and only one copy of the message is
delivered.
If you send one message with
ContentBasedDeduplication
enabled and then another message with a
MessageDeduplicationId
that is the same as the one
generated for the first
MessageDeduplicationId
, the two
messages are treated as duplicates and only one copy of the message is
delivered.
The following attributes apply only to
high throughput
for FIFO queues
:
DeduplicationScope
– Specifies whether message deduplication occurs at the
message group or queue level. Valid values are
messageGroup
and
queue
.
FifoThroughputLimit
– Specifies whether the FIFO queue throughput
quota applies to the entire queue or per message group. Valid values are
perQueue
and
perMessageGroupId
.
The
perMessageGroupId
value is allowed only when the value for
DeduplicationScope
is
messageGroup
.
To enable high throughput for FIFO queues, do the following:
Set
FifoThroughputLimit
to
perMessageGroupId
.
If you set these attributes to anything other than the values shown for enabling high
throughput, normal throughput is in effect and deduplication occurs as specified.
For information on throughput quotas,
see
Quotas related to messages
in the
Amazon SQS Developer Guide
.
Type: String to string map
Valid Keys:
All | Policy | VisibilityTimeout | MaximumMessageSize | MessageRetentionPeriod | ApproximateNumberOfMessages | ApproximateNumberOfMessagesNotVisible | CreatedTimestamp | LastModifiedTimestamp | QueueArn | ApproximateNumberOfMessagesDelayed | DelaySeconds | ReceiveMessageWaitTimeSeconds | RedrivePolicy | FifoQueue | ContentBasedDeduplication | KmsMasterKeyId | KmsDataKeyReusePeriodSeconds | DeduplicationScope | FifoThroughputLimit | RedriveAllowPolicy | SqsManagedSseEnabled
Required: No
A queue name can have up to 80 characters.
Valid values: alphanumeric characters, hyphens (
-
), and
underscores (
_
).
A FIFO queue name must end with the
.fifo
suffix.
Queue URLs and names are case-sensitive.
Type: String
Required: Yes
Add cost allocation tags to the specified Amazon SQS queue. For an overview, see
Tagging
Your Amazon SQS Queues
in the
Amazon SQS Developer Guide
.
When you use queue tags, keep the following guidelines in mind:
Adding more than 50 tags to a queue isn't recommended.
Tags don't have any semantic meaning. Amazon SQS interprets tags as character strings.
Tags are case-sensitive.
A new tag with a key identical to that of an existing tag overwrites the existing tag.
For a full list of tag restrictions, see
Quotas related to queues
in the
Amazon SQS Developer Guide
.
Type: String to string map
Required: No
Response Syntax
"
QueueUrl
": "
string
"
Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.
The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.
You must wait 60 seconds after deleting a queue before you can create another queue
with the same name.
HTTP Status Code: 400
A queue with this name already exists. Amazon SQS returns this error only if the request
includes attributes whose values differ from those of the existing queue.
HTTP Status Code: 400
Ensure that the request rate is within the Amazon SQS limits for
sending messages. For more information, see
Amazon SQS quotas
in the
Amazon SQS
Developer Guide
.
HTTP Status Code: 400
Examples
The following example query requests create a new queue named
MyQueue
. The structure of
AUTHPARAMS
depends on the signature of the API request.
For more information, see
Examples of Signed Signature Version 4 Requests
in the
AWS General Reference
.
Example
Using AWS JSON protocol
(Default)
Sample Request
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
X-Amz-Target: AmazonSQS.CreateQueue
X-Amz-Date: <Date>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0
Authorization: <AuthParams>
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Connection: Keep-Alive
"QueueName":"MyQueue",
"Attributes": {
"VisibilityTimeout": "40"
"tags": {
"QueueType": "Production"
Sample Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: <requestId>
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Date: <Date>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0
"QueueUrl":"https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/177715257436/MyQueue"
Example
Using AWS query
protocol
Sample Request
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
X-Amz-Date: <Date>
Authorization: <AuthParams>
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Connection: Keep-Alive
Action=CreateQueue
&QueueName=MyQueue
&Attribute.1.Name=VisibilityTimeout
&Attribute.1.Value=40
&Tag.Key=QueueType
&Tag.Value=Production
Sample Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<CreateQueueResponse xmlns="http://queue.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-11-05/">
<CreateQueueResult>
<QueueUrl>https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/177715257436/MyQueue</QueueUrl>
</CreateQueueResult>
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>9b20926c-8b35-5d8e-9559-ce1c22e754dc</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</CreateQueueResponse>
Example
The following example creates a delay queue which hides each message from
consumers for the first 45 seconds that the message is in the queue by calling
the CreateQueue
action with the DelaySeconds
attribute
set to 45 seconds.
Queue URLs and names are case-sensitive.
Sample Request
https://sqs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/123456789012/MyQueue/
?Action=CreateQueue
&QueueName=MyQueue
&Attribute.1.Name=DelaySeconds
&Attribute.1.Value=45
&Expires=2020-12-20T22%3A52%3A43PST
&Version=2012-11-05
&AUTHPARAMS
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: