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Overview
With AWS SQS, you pay only for what you use and there is no minimum fee.
Amazon SQS Free Tier*
You can get started with Amazon SQS for free. All customers can make 1 million Amazon SQS requests for free each month. Some applications might be able to operate within this Free Tier limit.
How are Amazon SQS requests priced?
The pricing for monthly requests is shown below:
How are Amazon SQS charges metered?
| API Actions | Every Amazon SQS action counts as a request. |
| FIFO Requests | API actions for sending, receiving, deleting, and changing visibility of messages from FIFO queues are charged at FIFO rates. All other API requests are charged at standard rates. |
| Contents of Requests | A single request can have from 1 to 10 messages, up to a maximum total payload of 256 KB. |
| Size of Payloads |
Each 64 KB chunk of a payload is billed as 1 request (for example, an API action with a 256 KB payload is billed as 4 requests). |
| Interaction with Amazon S3 | When using the Amazon SQS Extended Client Library to send payloads using Amazon S3, you incur Amazon S3 charges for any Amazon S3 storage you use to send message payloads. |
| Interaction with AWS KMS |
When using the AWS Key Management Service to manage keys for SQS server-side encryption, you incur charges for calls from Amazon SQS to AWS KMS. For more information see KMS pricing and How Do I Estimate My AWS KMS Usage Costs? in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide. |
| Data transfer | AWS does not charge for data transfer when sending messages to Amazon SQS or receiving messages from Amazon SQS if all resources are in the same AWS region. For cross-region data transfer and data transfer to or from the internet, standard AWS Data Transfer Charges apply. |
Amazon SQS requests are listed on the product features page.
* Your usage of the free tier is calculated each month across all regions (except the GovCloud region) and is applied to your bill automatically. Unused free usage does not roll over to the next month. Restrictions apply. See offer terms for more details.
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