Amazon SQS - Receive Messages Action

This action allows you to pull up to 10 messages from a chosen SQS queue. This comes in handy with recipes where you need to pull messages midway through a recipe.

Input fields

Field name	Description
Queue	The queue to pull messages from.
Select attributes	A list of attributes that need to be returned along with each message.
Max number of messages	The maximum number of messages to return. Amazon SQS never returns more messages than this value (however, fewer messages might be returned). Valid values: 1 to 10. Default: 1.
Visibility timeout	The duration (in seconds) that the received messages are hidden from subsequent retrieve requests after being retrieved by a ReceiveMessage request. Maximum allowed is 12 hours. Learn more about visibility timeout.
Wait time (seconds)	Value (in seconds) must be between 0 to 20. The duration (in seconds) for which the call waits for a message to arrive in the queue before returning. If a message is available, the call returns sooner than WaitTimeSeconds. If no messages are available and the wait time expires, the call returns successfully with an empty list of messages.

Output fields

The output to this action is a list of messages.

Field name	Description
Request ID	The unique id of the request.
MD5 of message attributes	MD5 hash of message attribute
MD5 of message body	MD5 hash of message body
MD5 of message system attributes	MD5 hash of message system attribute
Message ID	The unique id of the message.
Message body	The message's contents.
Sequence number	This parameter applies only to FIFO (first-in-first-out) queues. The large, non-consecutive number that Amazon SQS assigns to each message.