Amazon Simple Queue Service
Getting Started Guide (API Version 2011-10-01)
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Working with Amazon SQS

This section describes how to create an Amazon SQS queue, send a message to the queue, and retrieve and delete messages from the queue. The following sections are intended to be followed sequentially, like a tutorial.

You can explore Amazon SQS without writing code by using either the AWS Management Console or the Amazon SQS scratchpad. You can also code with one of the following: Java, C#, Perl, or PHP5.

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