---
id: aws-cdk-aws-sqs
version: "1.204.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# aws-cdk.aws-sqs — The CDK Construct Library for AWS::SQS

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 166.1K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This package is the AWS CDK Construct Library for SQS, providing Python classes to define Amazon Simple Queue Service resources declaratively within CDK applications. It abstracts the underlying CloudFormation resources, allowing developers to create queues, configure encryption, set up FIFO ordering, and integrate with other AWS services through a high-level API.

The package is part of AWS CDK v1, which reached end-of-support on 2023-06-01. While the repository remains active and the package itself has no known vulnerabilities, AWS no longer updates this construct library. Developers using it should plan migration to AWS CDK v2, where SQS constructs are actively maintained and improved.

Use it for:

- Define SQS queues in CDK v1 applications that are already deployed and stable, when migration to v2 is not immediately feasible.
- Set up message queuing for decoupling microservices in infrastructure-as-code projects using the v1 CDK framework.
- Configure encryption, FIFO ordering, and dead-letter queues for SQS resources without writing raw CloudFormation.
- Integrate SQS with other AWS services (IAM, KMS, CloudWatch) through CDK construct composition in v1 stacks.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides AWS CDK constructs for defining Amazon SQS queues and related messaging infrastructure as code in Python.

No for new projects—AWS CDK v2 is the active, supported path. Yes-with-conditions for existing v1 deployments that are stable and not undergoing active development, provided your team has a migration plan. The package itself is sound (no vulnerabilities, low install friction), but its end-of-support status makes it a technical debt liability for anything beyond maintenance mode.

## Install

pip install aws-cdk-aws-sqs
uv add aws-cdk-aws-sqs
poetry add aws-cdk-aws-sqs

## Installing aws-cdk.aws-sqs

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel. However, the package reached end-of-support on 2023-06-01 and is no longer being updated; AWS CDK v2 is the recommended migration path. Active repository maintenance does not change the fact that this v1 construct library is frozen.

License in practice: Licensed under Apache-2.0 (permissive), allowing commercial use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install aws-cdk.aws-sqs

import aws_cdk.aws_sqs as sqs

# Create a basic queue
queue = sqs.Queue(self, "Queue")

Requires Python ~=3.7 or later. AWS CDK v1 is end-of-support as of 2023-06-01; new projects should use AWS CDK v2.

Verify before relying:

- Whether existing v1 projects can safely remain on this package long-term without security or compatibility issues.
- Migration effort and breaking changes when upgrading from v1 to v2.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 166.1K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

aws sqs queue infrastructure as code, cdk sqs construct library, aws message queue python, sqs fifo queue cdk, aws queue encryption cdk, serverless message queue aws, sqs microservices decoupling, aws-cdk, end-of-support, infrastructure-as-code

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