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Amazon_SQS_4

Ensure Queue Unprocessed Messages are not more than 500

Description

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues are not holding a high amount of unsuccessfully-processed messages due to unresponsive or incapacitated consumers. A consumer is an AWS compute resources like a Lambda function or an EC2 instance that reads messages from the designated SQS queue and does the actual processing.

Remediation

Perform the following steps to decrease the Queue Unprocessed Messages are :

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console.
  2. click to SQS dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/sqs/.
  3. Choose the SQS queue that keeps a high number of unprocessed messages and identifies its unresponsive/incapacitated consumer(s).
  4. Based on the AWS resource type used for the SQS consumer, perform one of the following sets of actions:<ol style="list-style-type: upper-alpha

Service

SQS

Severity

Medium

Compliance

Mapping

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