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Glossary
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 a message from the queue or when changing a message's visibility timeout.
- 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.
