Amazon EventBridge now supports targeting SQS fair queues

Amazon EventBridge now supports Amazon SQS fair queues as targets, enabling you to build more responsive event-driven applications. You can now leverage SQSs improved message distribution across consumer groups and mitigate the noisy neighbor impact in multi-tenant messaging systems. This enhancement allows EventBridge to send events directly to SQS fair queues. With fair queues, multiple consumers can process messages from the same tenant at the same time, while keeping message processing times consistent across all tenants.

The Amazon EventBridge event bus is a serverless event broker that enables you to create scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party SaaS applications, and other AWS services. SQS fair queues automatically distribute messages fairly across consumer groups, preventing any single group from monopolizing queue resources. When combined with EventBridge's event routing capabilities, this creates powerful patterns for building scalable, multi-tenant applications where different teams or services need equitable access to event streams.

To route events to an SQS fair queue, you can select the fair queue as a target when creating or updating EventBridge rules through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. Be sure to include a MessageGroupID parameter, which can be specified with either a static value or JSON path expression.

Support for Fair Queue and FIFO targets is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For more information about EventBridge target support, see our documentation. For more information about SQS Fair Queues, see the SQS documentation.