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Asked: 2026-06-17T09:05:35+00:00

Does anyone know what the maximum amount of queues I can create is? I’ve

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Does anyone know what the maximum amount of queues I can create is? I’ve look around on AWS and can’t seem to find the answer. I might have almost 50 different queues at the end of this project and want to make sure I am not running out of runway…

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is no limit for the number of queues:

    https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/faqs/#Limits_and_restrictions

    Q: How many message queues can I create?

    You can create any number of message queues.

    There is also no limit for the number of messages in a queue:

    Q: How large can Amazon SQS message queues be?

    A single Amazon SQS message queue can contain an unlimited number of messages. However, there is a quota of 120,000 for the number of inflight messages for a standard queue and 20,000 for a FIFO queue. Messages are inflight after they have been received from the queue by a consuming component, but have not yet been deleted from the queue.

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