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To help you estimate the amount of resources needed to process your queued messages, Amazon SQS can provide you with an approximate number of messages in a queue.
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Because of the distributed architecture of SQS, the result is not an exact count of the number of messages in a queue. In most cases it should be close to the actual number of messages in the queue, but you should not rely on the count being precise. |
The following table lists the API action to use.
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Get the approximate number of messages in the queue |
