SQS Extended Client & Bento

Intro Standard SQS messages are limited in size to 256 KB 😱 - but you can use the Amazon SQS Extended Client to send larger messages up to 2 GB. These libraries store the messages larger than 256 KB in S3 and send a reference to the stored object in the SQS queue. Amazon provides two client libraries, for Python and Java. There are a few unofficial ones knocking around on github: Javascript and Go. ...

March 26, 2025 · 4 min · Jem Davies