System Designer

Message Queue Designer

Input your workload and constraints to get a tailored recommendation with sizing guidance.

Workload

Use Case

Throughput (msg/s)

Avg Message (KB)

p99 Latency (ms)

Retention (days)

Consumers

Delivery

Ordering Required?

Regions

Management

Cost Sensitivity

Storage Estimate

Messages retained: 1,296,000,000

Total retained data: 2.41 TB

Recommendation

Amazon SQS

Why this fits

• Managed service reduces ops burden
• Decoupled task processing with backpressure
• Latency tolerance fits SQS characteristics

Suggested sizing

consumerConcurrency25

batchSize10

queueTypeStandard

retentionDays3

Implementation notes

• Use long polling and batching for efficiency
• Combine with SNS for fanout and DLQ for failures

Further Reading

See the Message Queues reference and deep dives: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS.