Glossary

Access Key ID

An identifier associated with your Secret Access Key. Used for request authentication.

AWS access key identifiers

Your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. You receive these when you create an AWS account.

message ID

An identifier you get when you send a message to the queue.

Query

This is a type of HTTP request that generally uses only the GET or POST HTTP method and a query string with parameters.

queue URL

The URL uniquely identifying a queue.

receipt handle

An identifier you get when you receive a message from the queue. You must provide this identifier when deleting the message from the queue.

Secret Access Key

A key that Amazon Web Services (AWS) assigns to you when you sign up for an AWS account. Used for request authentication.

visibility timeout

The length of time (in seconds) that a message that has been received from a queue will be invisible to other receiving components when they ask to receive messages. During the visibility timeout, the component that received the message usually processes the message and then deletes it from the queue.