AWS Certified Developer Associate · Free Practice Question Medium
Question 50
A media company uses Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queue to manage their transactions. With changing business needs, the payload size of the messages is increasing. The Team Lead of the project is worried about the 256 KB message size limit that SQS has.
What can be done to make the queue accept messages of a larger size?
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A
Use the MultiPart API
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B
Use the SQS Extended Client
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C
Use gzip compression
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D
Get a service limit increase from AWS
Reveal correct answer
Correct answer: B
Explanation
Correct option:
Use the SQS Extended Client - To manage large Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) messages, you can use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and the Amazon SQS Extended Client Library for Java. This is especially useful for storing and consuming messages up to 2 GB. Unless your application requires repeatedly creating queues and leaving them inactive or storing large amounts of data in your queues, consider using Amazon S3 for storing your data.
Incorrect options:
Use the MultiPart API - This is an incorrect statement. There is no multi-part API for Amazon Simple Queue Service.
Get a service limit increase from AWS - While it is possible to get service limits extended for certain AWS services, AWS already offers Extended Client to deal with queues that have larger messages.
Use gzip compression - You can compress the messages before sending them to the queue. The messages also need to be encoded after this to cater to SQS message standards. This adds bulk to the messages and will not be an optimal solution for the current scenario.
Reference:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-s3-messages.html
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