Cost Optimization & FinOps
Part 6
palaniappan p 7 min
Amazon SQS Pricing: The 64 KB Rule, FIFO Premium, and Why Empty Receives Drive Half the Bill
SQS charges $0.40 per million standard requests and $0.50 per million FIFO requests, but a single 256 KB message counts as four requests under the 64 KB rule. Short polling on idle queues silently quadruples the bill. Cross-region data transfer adds a line many teams never count.