We're looking at yet another proof of concept (POC) application today. We're going to see how we can integrate Amazon SQS, which stands for Simple Queue Service into our Spring Boot application so that we can send messages to the queue. I'm going to use a few terms in this post which are influenced by Apache Kafka, because I come with extensive Kafka experience. However, I'm not going to compare Apache Kafka and Amazon SQS here. To clear things up, any service which sends a message to an SQS queue, I'll refer to such a service as the producer. And any service which receives a message from an SQS queue, I'll refer to that as the consumer. Now that we