Create the SQS queue

1. Navigate to SQS in the AWS console

2. Create a queue

3. Give the queue a name

4. Under Configuration, Set Message retention to 1 day

5. Under Access policy, click Advanced.

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

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

{  
   "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:

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

8. Click Create queue

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