Amazon_SQS_9
A queues dead-letter queue should not be itself. If the dead-letter queue of a queue is itself, it wouldn’t be possible to distinguish between messages that were send to the source queue and the dead letter queue
Perform the following to set a dead-letter queue for existing queue:
Via AWS Console
1. Login to AWS Console
2. Navigate to SQS Service
3. Create new queue. This queue will be used as the dead-letter queue of the existing queue.
4. Select the relevant existing queue and click Edit
5. Look for Dead-letter queue – Optional” in the drop down select the new queue ARN.
Via CLI:
aws sqs set-queue-attributes –queue-url <Queue url> –attributes <file:update_attributes.json>
Where the file should contain RedrivePolicy with deadLetterTargetArn different then the source queue.
Use the following reference for additional information regarding dead-letter queues:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-configure-dead-letter-queue.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-dead-letter-queues.html
CLI: https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/sqs/set-queue-attributes.html
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