SQS got a lot cheaper, I think around Feb this year. Are you sure you aren't going by the old prices? I find it very affordable now. $0.01 per 10,000 requests

SQS got a lot cheaper, I think around Feb this year. Are you sure you aren't going by the old prices? I find it very affordable now. $0.01 per 10,000 requests $0.100 per GB in $0.170 per GB out (less with higher volume). I can't remember exactly, but I think it was only a per request cost before of around $0.10 per 1,000 or something. Also the in/out costs don't apply when they're coming from EC2, which would be the case in your scenario I believe. So from EC2 if you're doing an EC2 based distributed system, you're looking at one dollar per million requests (so for processing a message in a distributed system typically one dollar per 500,000 messages pushed then pulled). Pretty cheap by my standards. Much cheaper than it was at initial launch.