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AWS re:invent 2017: How the BBC Built a Massive Media Pipeline Using Microservices (52:47)

AWS re:invent 2017: Getting from Here to There: A Journey from On-premises to Server (54:50)

AWS re:invent 2017: Building .NET-based Serverless Architectures and Running .NET Core Microservices in Docker Containers on AWS (1:01:22)

AWS re:Invent 2017: Automating Mother Nature - How Nexon Used AWS Services to Algorithmically Create and Manage an In-Game Ecosystem (45:44)

AWS re:Invent 2016: Migrating Enterprise Messaging to the Cloud (48:24)

AWS re:Invent 2015: Scalable Messaging Architectures (50:33)

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Sparkpost: Decouple Email MTA on AWS (5:04)

Ajilon: Automating continuous delivery in the enterprise (3:53)

CoreLogic: Spotting scalable architectures for batch workloads (4:08)

Qantas: Building a highly-available, multi-AZ CIFS Cluster on AWS (4:14)

Bulletproof: Slaying monoliths one API service at a time (6:16)

Ocado: Creating a self-service portal to help developers build secure, loosely coupled microservices (4:57)

This is My Architecture

Zapproved: Automating data processing with Step Functions, Lambda, and SQS (4:38)

GoPro: Editing media on the “go” with ECS, SQS, Elastic Transcoder, and Auto Scaling lifecycle hooks (4:25)

Human Longevity, Inc.: Powerful and reusable application pipelines with OpsWorks, SQS, and Lambda (4:20)

ClearScale: Designer Genes to Order from a serverless platform built with API Gateway, Lambda, and SQS (3:40)

BBC: How iPlayer uses Amazon S3 multi-part copy and SQS to power their broadcast pipeline (7:19)

Overview videos

Introducing Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) FIFO Queues (2:04)

Introducing Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Server-side Encryption (1:35)

Tim Bray & Friends: Messaging for Media & Broadcasting with guest Stephen Goodwin, BBC (44:25)

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Implementing AWS Well-Architected best practices for Amazon SQS – Part 1
by Pascal Vogel | on 06/27/2023

Implementing AWS Well-Architected best practices for Amazon SQS – Part 2
by Pascal Vogel | on 06/27/2023

Implementing AWS Well-Architected best practices for Amazon SQS – Part 3
by Pascal Vogel | on 06/27/2023

Best practices for implementing event-driven architectures in your organization
by Emanuele Levi | on 07/24/2023

Building Multi-partner integration on AWS using Event-Driven Architecture
by Vivek Kant | on 01/31/2021

Coordinating large messages across accounts and Regions with Amazon SNS and SQS
by Mrudhula Balasubramanyan | on 08/08/2023

Migrating a self-managed message broker to Amazon SQS
by Vikas Panghal and Mohanad Saleh | on 03/22/2023

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Blogs

Building an Immersive VR Streaming Solution on AWS
Chad Schmutzer
February 23, 2018

Introducing Cost Allocation Tags for Amazon SQS
Jeff Barr October 19, 2017

Building Loosely Coupled, Scalable, C# Applications with Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS
Stephen Liedig
June 20, 2017

Using Amazon SQS Dead-Letter Queues to Control Message Failure
Michael G. Khmelnitsky
June 7, 2017

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