Action

Required

Send Message

Choice

The action performed upon the task execution.

Region

Required

-

Text

Region for the Amazon Web Service.

Find more information about the AWS Service endpoints and quotas here.

Credentials

Required

-

Credentials

The AWS account credentials.

They are comprised of:

• AWS access key ID

• AWS secret access key

Queue Name

Required

-

Dynamic Choice

Dynamic fetched list of queue names.

The user can select the required queue name from a drop-down list.

Queue Name Prefix

Optional

-

Text

A prefix to use for filtering the Queue Names list results.

Only those queues whose name begins with the specified string are returned.

Queue Names are case-sensitive.

Role Based Access

Optional

False

Boolean

Flag to configure whether the type of authorization is based on IAM Role-Based Access Control(RBAC) strategy.

Find more information about the IAM RBAC authorization model here.

Role ARN

Optional

-

Text

The Role Amazon Resource Name (ARN) to have access to the SQS queue.

Role ARN format: arn:aws:iam::<AWS Account ID>:instance-profile/<Role name>

Required when Role Based Access has been clicked.

Message Body Source

Required

Raw

Choice

Type of message to be sent.

Available options are:

• Raw

• Script

Message Attributes

Optional

-

Script

The message attributes to send alongside the message body. Each message attribute consists of a Name, Type, and Value. It should be in JSON format and can have up to 10 attributes.

Example of Attribute Script with 2 Attributes:

{
 "CustomerFirstname": {
  "DataType": "String",
  "StringValue": "John"
 },
 "CustomerLastname": {
  "DataType": "String",
  "StringValue": "Doe"
 }
}

Message Body

Optional

-

Large Text

The message to send to queue.

A message can include only XML, JSON, and unformatted text.

The following Unicode characters are allowed:

#x9, #xA, #xD, #x20 to #xD7FF, #xE000 to #xFFFD, #x10000 to #x10FFFF

Any characters not included in this list will be rejected.

For more information, see the W3C specification for characters.

Required when Message Body Source is configured for "Raw"

Message Body Script

Optional

-

Script

The message to send to queue. The minimum message size is 1 byte (1 character).

The maximum is 262,144 bytes (256 KB).

Required when Message Body Source is configured for "Script".

Is Queue Fifo

Required

False

Boolean

Flag to configure whether the message will be sent to a FIFO Queue.

It should be enabled, if the message will be sent to a FIFO Queue.

Delay Seconds

Optional

-

Integer

The length of time, in seconds, for which to delay a specific message. Messages with a positive value become available for processing after the delay period is finished.

Valid values from 0 to 900.

Used when Is Queue Fifo is disabled.

Message Deduplication ID

Optional

-

Text

Specifies ID for deduplication of sent messages. If a Message Deduplication ID is not provided and the queue doesn't have Content Based Deduplication set on Queue, an error will be raised.

Maximum Length is 128 characters.

Used when Is Queue Fifo is enabled.

Message Group ID

Optional

-

Text

Group ID that specifies that a message belongs to a specific message group.

Maximum Length is 128 characters.

Required when Is Queue Fifo is enabled.

Use Proxy

Required

False

Boolean

Flag to configure whether Proxy should be used in communication.

Proxy Type

Optional

http

Choice

Type of proxy connection to be used.

Available options are:

• http

• https

• https with password

Required when Use Proxy is enabled.

Proxy

Optional

-

Text

Proxy server and port. Valid format: http://proxyip:port or https://proxyip:port.

Required when Use Proxy is enabled.

Proxy CA Bundle File

Optional

-

Text

The path to a custom certificate bundle to use when establishing SSL/TLS connections with proxy.

Used when Proxy Type is configured for "https" or "https with password".

Proxy Credentials

Optional

-

Credentials

Credentials to be used for the proxy communication.

They are comprised of:

• username

• password

Required when Proxy Type is configured for "https with password".