Well, sqs has machinery that deals with this (in flight messages, visibility timeouts) "out of the box". Similar functionality needs to be handcrafted when usin

Well, sqs has machinery that deals with this (in flight messages, visibility timeouts) "out of the box". Similar functionality needs to be handcrafted when using dB as a queue. To be clear, it is not that the SKIP LOCKED solution is invalid, it is just that there are scenarios where it is not sufficient.