amazon web services - SQS - Delivery Delay of 30 minutes

Question

From the documentation of SQS, Max time delay we can configure for a message to hide from its consumers is 15 minutes - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-delay-queues.html

Suppose if I need to hide the messages for a day, what is the pattern? For eg. I want to mimic a daily cron for doing some action.

Thanks

Answer 1

The simplest way to do this is as follows:

SQS.push_to_queue({perform_message_at : "Thursday November 2022"},delay: 15 mins)

Inside your worker

message = SQS.poll_messages
if message.perform_message_at > Time.now
   SQS.push_to_queue({perform_message_at : "Thursday November 
   2022"},delay:15 mins)
else
   process_message(message)
end

Basically push the message back to the queue with the maximum delay and only process it when its processing time is less than the current time.

HTH.