Create the SQS queue

1. Navigate to SQS in the AWS console

1. Create a queue

1. Give the queue a name

1. Under Configuration, Set Message retention to 1 day

1. Under Access policy, click Advanced.

1. Delete the default JSON in the Advanced Access policy.

2. Copy and paste in the following JSON, changing <bucketname> to be the name of the S3 bucket you created in an earlier step.

JSON

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Id": "PushMessageToSQSPolicy",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "allow-sns-to-send-message-to-sqs",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "*"
      },
      "Action": "sqs:SendMessage",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:SourceArn": "arn:aws:s3:::<bucketname>"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

The result should look like this:

📘Leave all other settings set as default, or follow the policies set by your organization.

1. Click Create queue

1. Save the SQS queue ARN in a text file. This will come in handy later.