AWS SQS Visibility Timeout Explained in 10 Minutes

An AWS SQS queue has a feature called the Visibility Timeout where SQS temporarily hides a message from other consumers while it is being consumed by a consumer.
In this video, you'll learn:
- The concept of Visibility Timeout
- How it works?
- How to configure the Visibility Timeout for an SQS queue?
- Best practices for setting the Visibility Timeout
This video is followed by a detailed article at:
/ aws-sqs-visibility-tim...
If you are new to message queues, you can take a look at this video for more information
• Message Queue Fundamen...
#aws #sqs #messaging
=======================================================
Event-driven Utopia provides quality video content on designing, building, and operating asynchronous, event-driven applications. Stay tuned to receive content similar to this video by subscribing to us.
Follow us on Twitter for new updates.
/ eventutopia
Blog:
/ event-driven
Background music credits:
Breathing Planet by Doug Maxwell

[@bu_xl]

Love the explanation and the soundtrack 🙏

[@akritworanithiphong]

Thank you

[@shazinfy]

Thank you for precise explanation.

[@mahletkenaw5815]

Great lesson. Thank you

[@asheater9211]

amazing exaplanation !!

[@ProGamer-mq1mp]

Thanks for explaining it.

[@darshake1]

Keep up the good work.

[@hammadyasir2174]

Thanks for clearing doubts about sqs Visibility timeout

[@leelakrishnapolimera9898]

Very useful

[@akshaykalambe9054]

Nicely explained.. 👍

[@jain007neeraj]

Awesome

[@ashishpatil6377]

I feel like hans zimmer explaining interstellar movie.

[@sj9851]

The video explains that other consumers can not poll the SAME message, but can they poll other messages in FIFO queue since other message doesn't have Visibility Timeout yet?

[@GopalKrishanAggarwal1]

Yes. It also explains that other consumers will end up receiving the SAME message, if the initial consumer fails to delete it within the visibility timeout period.

[@paulifea7072]

What happens when the visibility timeout period expires while consumer 1 is still processing the message, and consumer 2 polls the message which enters a visibility timeout period so consumer 1 does not have access to the message? can consumer 1 still continue processing the previously polled message to its completion?

[@GopalKrishanAggarwal1]

AFAIK, if the visibility timeout expires while consumer 1 is still processing the message, then same message will also start getting processed by consumer 2. i.e. consumer 1 and consumer 2 are now processing the same message simultaneously.

[@sdakshin1]

1.5x

[@filipequeiroz1133]

I just didn't understand this horrifying soundtrack