Here's a comparison of the two: Entity Type SQS : Queue (Similar to JMS)SNS : Topic (Pub/Sub system) Message consumption SQS : Pull Mechanism - Consumers poll and pull messages from SQSSNS : Push Mechanism - SNS Pushes messages to consumers Use Case SQS : Decoupling 2 applications and allowing parallel asynchronous processingSNS : Fanout … Continue reading SNS vs SQS →