Amazon SQS Standard versus Amazon SNS Standard

05 Mar 2026

Learn how Amazon SQS Standard differs from Amazon SNS Standard.

	Amazon SQS Standard	Amazon SNS Standard
Scaling	nearly unlimited	not disclosed (default soft limit depends on region; e.g., 9000 msg/sec in eu-west-1)
Max. message size	256 KB	256 KB
Persistence	up to 14 days	no
Replication	Multi-AZ	Multi-AZ
Order guarantee	no	no
Delivery guarantee	at least once	at least once
Pricing	per message	per message
Protocols	AWS Rest API	AWS Rest API
AWS Integrations	Lambda	Lambda, SQS, webhook
License	AWS only	AWS only
Encryption at rest	yes	yes
Encryption in transit	yes	yes

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