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Throughput or order?
This comparison card contrasts Throughput or order. Standard queue: Nearly unlimited throughput. It also notes best-effort order. It also notes at-least-once. FIFO queue: Ordered per MessageGroupId. It also notes exactly-once within group. It also notes lower throughput. The card pairs Standard queue with most async workloads, and FIFO queue with when order/dedupe are business-critical.
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Throughput or order?
Standard queue
Nearly unlimited throughput; best-effort order; at-least-once.
FIFO queue
Ordered per MessageGroupId; exactly-once within group; lower throughput.
Key points
Clickstream ingest.
Ledger postings per account.
Example
SendMessage / SendMessage + MessageGroupId + MessageDeduplicationId
Use when
Most async workloads.
When order/dedupe are business-critical.