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How to Create an SQS Dead Letter Queue with AWS CDK and Typescript

Introduction

In this lesson, we will learn how to create an SQS Dead Letter Queue with AWS CDK and Typescript. We will use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to deploy the infrastructure and Typescript to write the code.

The AWS CDK is an open-source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code. It allows developers to use familiar programming languages such as Typescript, Python, Java, and C# to define cloud resources.

The AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables applications to communicate with each other. It provides a reliable, highly available, and durable messaging system for applications.

A Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) is a queue that stores messages that cannot be processed successfully. It is used to store messages that have failed to be processed by the main queue.

In this lesson, we will learn how to create an SQS Dead Letter Queue with AWS CDK and Typescript. We will use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to deploy the infrastructure and Typescript to write the code.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, you should have the following prerequisites:

  • An AWS account
  • An AWS IAM user with the necessary permissions to create and manage SQS queues
  • The AWS CLI installed and configured
  • The AWS CDK installed and configured
  • Typescript installed and configured

Creating an SQS Queue

The first step is to create an SQS queue. We can do this using the AWS CLI or the AWS CDK.

Using the AWS CLI

To create an SQS queue using the AWS CLI, we can use the aws sqs create-queue command. This command takes a QueueName parameter which is the name of the queue to be created.

For example, to create an SQS queue named my-queue, we can run the following command:

aws sqs create-queue --queue-name my-queue

Using the AWS CDK

To create an SQS queue using the AWS CDK, we can use the Queue class. This class takes a queueName parameter which is the name of the queue to be created.

For example, to create an SQS queue named my-queue, we can use the following code:

import * as sqs from '@aws-cdk/aws-sqs';

const queue = new sqs.Queue(this, 'MyQueue', {
  queueName: 'my-queue'
});

Creating an SQS Dead Letter Queue

Once we have created an SQS queue, we can create an SQS Dead Letter Queue. We can do this using the AWS CLI or the AWS CDK.

Using the AWS CLI

To create an SQS Dead Letter Queue using the AWS CLI, we can use the aws sqs create-queue command. This command takes a QueueName parameter which is the name of the queue to be created and a RedrivePolicy parameter which is the policy for the Dead Letter Queue.

For example, to create an SQS Dead Letter Queue named my-dlq for the queue my-queue, we can run the following command:

aws sqs create-queue --queue-name my-dlq --attributes '{"RedrivePolicy": "{\"maxReceiveCount\":\"5\",\"deadLetterTargetArn\":\"arn:aws:sqs:us-east-1:123456789012:my-queue\"}"}'

Using the AWS CDK

To create an SQS Dead Letter Queue using the AWS CDK, we can use the DeadLetterQueue class. This class takes a queue parameter which is the queue to be used as the Dead Letter Queue and a maxReceiveCount parameter which is the maximum number of times a message can be received before it is sent to the Dead Letter Queue.

For example, to create an SQS Dead Letter Queue named my-dlq for the queue my-queue, we can use the following code:

import * as sqs from '@aws-cdk/aws-sqs';

const queue = new sqs.Queue(this, 'MyQueue', {
  queueName: 'my-queue'
});

const dlq = new sqs.DeadLetterQueue(this, 'MyDLQ', {
  queue: queue,
  maxReceiveCount: 5
});

Conclusion

In this lesson, we learned how to create an SQS Dead Letter Queue with AWS CDK and Typescript. We used the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to deploy the infrastructure and Typescript to write the code. We also learned how to create an SQS queue and an SQS Dead Letter Queue using the AWS CLI and the AWS CDK.

The key learnings from this lesson are:

  • The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) can be used to deploy cloud infrastructure in code
  • The AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service
  • A Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) is a queue that stores messages that cannot be processed successfully
  • We can use the AWS CLI or the AWS CDK to create an SQS queue and an SQS Dead Letter Queue
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