# Documentation history The following table describes the important changes to the *Amazon Simple Queue Service Developer Guide* since Jan 2019. For notifications about updates to this documentation, subscribe to the [RSS feed](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/recent-updates.rss). Service features are sometimes rolled out incrementally to the AWS Regions where a service is available. We update this documentation for the first release only. We don't provide information about Region availability or announce subsequent Region rollouts. For information about Region availability of service features and to subscribe to notifications about updates, see [What's New with AWS?](https://aws.amazon.com/new). | Change | Description | Date | | --- |--- |--- | | [Fair Queues support](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-fair-queues.html) | Fair Queues support added for standard queues. | July 21, 2025 | | [Added support for dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/aws-ipv6-support.html) | Amazon SQS now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints, allowing queues to be accessed via both IP protocols. | April 17, 2025 | | [CloudTrail integration for all Amazon SQS APIs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/logging-using-cloudtrail.html) | CloudTrail integration added for all Amazon SQS APIs. | January 10, 2025 | | [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-SQSUnlockQueuePolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-SQSUnlockQueuePolicy) | Amazon SQS added a new AWS-managed policy called `SQSUnlockQueuePolicy` to unlock a queue and remove a misconfigured queue policy that denies all principals from accessing an Amazon SQS queue. | November 15, 2024 | | [AWSkms:Decrypt](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-key-management.html#compatibility-with-aws-services) | Amazon SQS no longer requires the `kms:Decrypt` permission for the `SendMessage` API. Customers now only need the `kms:GenerateDataKey` permission on the KMS key used to encrypt the queue, but still need `kms:Decrypt` permission to call `ReceiveMessage`. | July 24, 2024 | | [FIFO metrics update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-available-cloudwatch-metrics.html) | Support for `NumberOfDeduplicatedSentMessages` and `ApproximateNumberOfGroupsWithInflightMessages` added to Amazon SQS FIFO metrics. | July 3, 2024 | | [`ListQueueTags` action supported in the AmazonSQSReadOnlyAccess managed policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-access-policy-aws-managed-policies.html) | The AmazonSQSReadOnlyAccess managed policy supports `ListQueueTags` to retrieve all tags associated with a specified Amazon SQS queue. | May 2, 2024 | | [AWSJSON protocol](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-making-api-requests-json.html) | Make API requests using AWS JSON protocol. | July 27, 2023 | | [New section describing AWS managed policies for Amazon SQS and updates to these policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-access-policy-aws-managed-policies.html) | Amazon SQS added a new action that allows you to list the most recent message movement tasks (up to 10) under a specific source queue. This action is associated with the `ListMessageMoveTasks` API operation. | June 7, 2023 | | [Dead-letter queue redrive using APIs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/API_StartMessageMoveTask.html) | Configure dead-letter queue redrives using Amazon SQS APIs. | June 7, 2023 | | [ABAC for Amazon SQS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-abac.html) | Attribute-based access control (ABAC) using queue tags for flexible and scalable access permissions. | November 10, 2022 | | [FIFO high throughput limit increases](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-getting-started.html#step-create-standard-queue) | Increased default quotas for FIFO high throughput mode in commercial Regions, plus FIFO high throughput document optimization. | October 20, 2022 | | [Default server-side encryption (SSE) is available](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-getting-started.html#step-create-standard-queue) | Server-side encryption (SSE) using SQS-owned encryption (SSE-SQS) by default. | September 26, 2022 | | [Amazon SQS confused deputy protection support is available](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-key-management.html) | Confused deputy protection allows you to specify new headers in their requests, which are checked against conditions in the KMS policy when using Amazon SQS managed SSE. | December 29, 2021 | | [Managed SSE is available](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-configure-sqs-sse-queue.html) | Amazon SQS managed SSE (SSE-SQS) is managed server-side encryption that uses Amazon SQS-owned encryption keys to protect sensitive data sent over message queues. | November 23, 2021 | | [Dead-letter queue redrive is available](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-dead-letter-queues.html#sqs-dead-letter-queues-redrive) | Amazon SQS supports [dead-letter queue redrive](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-configure-dead-letter-queue-redrive.html) for standard queues. | November 10, 2021 | | [High throughput for messages in FIFO queues is available](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/high-throughput-fifo.html) | High throughput for Amazon SQS FIFO queues provides a higher number of transactions per second (TPS) for messages in FIFO queues. For information on throughput quotas, see [Quotas related to messages](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/quotas-messages.html). | May 27, 2021 | | [High throughput for messages in FIFO queues is available in preview release](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/high-throughput-fifo.html) | High throughput for Amazon SQS FIFO queues is in preview release and is subject to change. This feature provides a higher number of transactions per second (TPS) for messages in FIFO queues. For information on throughput quotas, see [Quotas related to messages](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/quotas-messages.html). | December 17, 2020 | | [New Amazon SQS console design](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-configuring.html) | To simplify development and production workflows, the Amazon SQS console has a [new user experience](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-configuring.html). | July 8, 2020 | | [Amazon SQS supports pagination for listQueues and listDeadLetterSourceQueues](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/API_ListQueues.html) | You can specify the maximum number of results to return from a [listQueues](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/API_ListQueues.html) or [listDeadLetterSourceQueues](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/API_ListDeadLetterSourceQueues.html) request. | June 22, 2020 | | [Amazon SQS supports 1-minute Amazon CloudWatch metrics in all AWS Regions, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-available-cloudwatch-metrics.html) | The one-minute CloudWatch metric for Amazon SQS is available in all Regions, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | January 9, 2020 | | [Amazon SQS supports 1-minute CloudWatch metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-available-cloudwatch-metrics.html) | The one-minute CloudWatch metric for Amazon SQS is currently available only in the following Regions: US East (Ohio), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). | November 25, 2019 | | [AWS Lambda triggers for Amazon SQS FIFO queues are available](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-configure-lambda-function-trigger.html) | You can configure messages arriving in a FIFO queue as a Lambda function trigger. | November 25, 2019 | | [Server-side encryption (SSE) for Amazon SQS is available in the China Regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-server-side-encryption.html) | SSE for Amazon SQS is available in the China Regions. | November 13, 2019 | | [FIFO queues are available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-fifo-queues.html) | FIFO queues are available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region. | October 10, 2019 | | [Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints for Amazon SQS are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-internetwork-traffic-privacy.html#sqs-vpc-endpoints) | You can send messages to your Amazon SQS queues from Amazon VPC in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. | September 5, 2019 | | [Amazon SQS allows troubleshooting of queues using AWS X-Ray using message system attributes](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-troubleshooting-using-x-ray.html) | You can troubleshoot messages passing through Amazon SQS queues using X-Ray. This release adds the `MessageSystemAttribute` request parameter (which lets you send X-Ray trace headers through Amazon SQS) to the `SendMessage` and `SendMessageBatch` API operations, the `AWSTraceHeader` attribute to the `[ReceiveMessage](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/API_ReceiveMessage.html)` API operation, and the `MessageSystemAttributeValue` data type. | August 28, 2019 | | [You can tag Amazon SQS queues upon creation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/API_CreateQueue.html) | You can use a single Amazon SQS API call, AWS SDK function, or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) command to simultaneously create a queue and specify its tags. In addition, Amazon SQS supports the `aws:TagKeys` and `aws:RequestTag` AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) keys. | August 22, 2019 | | [The temporary queue client for Amazon SQS is now available](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-temporary-queues.html) | Temporary queues help you save development time and deployment costs when using common message patterns such as *request-response*. You can use the [Temporary Queue Client](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-sqs-java-temporary-queues-client) to create high-throughput, cost-effective, application-managed temporary queues. | July 25, 2019 | | [SSE for Amazon SQS is available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-server-side-encryption.html) | Server-side encryption (SSE) for Amazon SQS is available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. | June 20, 2019 | | [FIFO queues are available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), China (Beijing), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-fifo-queues.html) | FIFO queues are available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), China (Beijing), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. | May 15, 2019 | | [Amazon VPC endpoint policies are available for Amazon SQS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-internetwork-traffic-privacy.html#sqs-vpc-endpoint-policy) | You can create Amazon VPC endpoint policies for Amazon SQS. | April 4, 2019 | | [FIFO queues are available in the Europe (Stockholm) and China (Ningxia) Regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-fifo-queues.html) | FIFO queues are available in the Europe (Stockholm) and China (Ningxia) Regions. | March 14, 2019 | | [FIFO queues are available in all Regions where Amazon SQS is available](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-fifo-queues.html) | FIFO queues are available in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo) Regions. | February 7, 2019 |