> but it makes it so that your project can only run on amazon cloud servers Why? Can't you use it as a standalone product that integrates into whatever service

> but it makes it so that your project can only run on amazon cloud servers Why? Can't you use it as a standalone product that integrates into whatever service you want? The last time I used it was a few years ago for batch processing. I had Heroku instances that dispatched jobs directly to SQS. I'm doubtful but it's been a while since I've used the service so it might have changed.