AWS SQS (IAM)

aws messaging

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service for decoupling and scaling microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

Common permissions

sqs:ListQueuessqs:GetQueueUrlsqs:GetQueueAttributessqs:DeleteMessagesqs:TagQueuesqs:ListQueueTags

Least-privilege example

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sqs:ListQueues",
        "sqs:GetQueueUrl",
        "sqs:GetQueueAttributes",
        "sqs:DeleteMessage",
        "sqs:TagQueue",
        "sqs:ListQueueTags"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Warnings

Avoid sqs:* — grants full control including delete queues and purge messages
Avoid sqs:DeleteQueue unless needed — can permanently remove queues

Resources

AWS referenceservicereference.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1/sqs/sqs.json ↗

API

full doc /v1/iam/sqs