# Amazon SQS - Send Message Action

This action allows you to send a single message to a chosen SQS queue.

# Input fields

Field name Description
Queue The queue to send messages to.
Message body The message to send. The maximum string size is 256 KB. This is normally unstructured data
Message attribute A list of message attributes sent in the message. Use this for structured data.
Message system attribute Currently, the only supported message system attribute is AWSTraceHeader. Its type must be String and its value must be a correctly formatted AWS X-Ray trace header string. The size of a message system attribute doesn't count towards the total size of a message.

# Output fields

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.
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.


Last updated: 2/24/2022, 4:32:25 PM