Amazon Simple Queue Service
API Reference (API Version 2011-10-01)
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This documentation is associated with the 2011-10-01 release of the Amazon Simple Queue Service. This guide was last updated on 09 February 2012.

The following table describes the important changes since the last release of the Amazon Simple Queue Service API Reference.

ChangeDescriptionRelease Date

New feature

The 2011-10-01 API version of Amazon SQS supports three new batch API actions. You can send or delete up to ten messages with a single call to either SendMessageBatch or DeleteMessageBatch. You can also change the visibility timeout of up to ten messages with one call to ChangeMessageVisibilityBatch. For more information about the new batch actions, see SendMessageBatch, DeleteMessageBatch, and ChangeMessageVisibilityBatch.

In this release

New feature

The 2011-10-01 API version of Amazon SQS introduces a new GetQueueUrl action. You can quickly retrieve a queue's URL with GetQueueUrl. For more information about GetQueueUrl, see GetQueueUrl.

In this release

New feature

The 2011-10-01 API version of Amazon SQS adds delay queues and message timers. Delay queues allow you to postpone the delivery of all messages in a queue for a specific number of seconds. Message timers allow you to postpone delivery of a single message for a specific number of seconds. For both delay queues and message timers, the delay period begins when you add the message to the queue. For more information about delay queues and message timers, go to Amazon SQS Delay Queues and Amazon SQS Message Timers in the Amazon Simple Queue Service Developer Guide.

In this release