Welcome

This is the Amazon Simple Queue Service Getting Started Guide. This section describes who should read this guide, how the guide is organized, and other resources related to the Amazon Simple Queue Service.

The Amazon Simple Queue Service will occasionally be referred to within this guide as simply "SQS"; all copyrights and legal protections still apply.

This guide was last updated on 19 March 2007.

Audience

This guide is intended for developers who build distributed web-enabled applications. An application could typically use Amazon SQS as a buffer to manage the flow of data from one application component to another component at a different network location.

Required Knowledge and Skills

Use of this guide assumes you are familiar with the following:

• XML (See W3 Schools XML Tutorial)

• Basic understanding of web services (See W3 Schools Web Services Tutorial)

In addition, for this guide, you need to be familiar with one of the following programming languages:

• Java

• C#

• Perl

Language Filtering

Because this guide covers multiple programming languages, you may want to just read the steps for one particular language. The pages in this guide that feature examples allow you to filter the page contents for a particular language. To do this, select the language using the Show Language list on the top right corner of the page.

Selecting a language filter option applies to all of the pages in this guide.