Comments on: SQS vs Kafka: A Comparison and Guide https://blog.iron.io/amazon-sqs-vs-apache-kafka/ Scalable serverless application tools to run background tasks with Docker containers and manage messaging queues with cloud elasticity and handheld customer support. Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:33:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Raul https://blog.iron.io/amazon-sqs-vs-apache-kafka/#comment-15312 Tue, 08 Aug 2023 20:37:38 +0000 https://blog.iron.io/?p=8332#comment-15312 In reply to Jonathan.

I was going to write the same. You can easily attach a CloudWatch watcher to SQS, and the watcher can trigger a Lambda/SNS. So that statement is a bit misleading.

]]> By: Jonathan https://blog.iron.io/amazon-sqs-vs-apache-kafka/#comment-14375 Sun, 25 Jun 2023 09:12:47 +0000 https://blog.iron.io/?p=8332#comment-14375 So regarding “SQS lacks many basic features, like the ability for a message to trigger a Lambda function.”
If you strictly meant that it doesn’t “trigger”, then you are right. But a Lambda will poll an SQS.

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