Testing AWS SQS Locally in Python: A Guide to Get Started
2 min readFeb 10, 2023
AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a distributed message queue service that enables decoupled communication between microservices. While testing the communication between these services in a live environment can be challenging, it is possible to test SQS locally using the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3). In this blog post, we will discuss how to set up and test SQS locally in Python.