amazon web services - Manual acknolwedgement of sqs? -
currently using 'rabbitmq' reliable messaging delivery,we have plan move sqs.rmqp monitors consumers through tcp when consumer of queue goes down automatically re-queue messaging processing. will sqs monitor slaves? message visible in queue if 1 of consumer goes down while processing message? i have tried find out same documentation,i not find any. if 'slaves', mean sqs consumers, no, sqs not monitor consumers queue. in nutshell, sqs works this: a consumer requests message queue. sqs sends message consumer process , makes message temporarily invisible other consumers. when consumer finished processing message, sends 'deletemessage' requests sqs , sqs removes item queue. if consumer not send deletemessage enough (within configurable timeout period), sqs put message queue automatically. so sqs doesn't monitor consumers, if consumer requests messages - , nothing them - end in queue processed else. but if queue doesn't have c...