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> Used SQS as database(long story) I would love to hear it. I have mistakenly used SQS for medium-term storage of state, which is what I am assuming your issue

• Rapzid 9y ago
  That's the gist of it; tracking position of a long running process by writing messages back into the SQS queue. Any of the numerous edge cases that will cause a dupe record to appear(some of them documented SQS implementation details) would cause the process to duplicate :| Then triplicate :|