SQS Standard vs SQS FIFO vs Kafka

LeetDezine The SQS FIFO vs Standard decision sounds simple: need ordering? Use FIFO. Don't care? Use Standard. That framing leads to the wrong answer more often than not. The real question isn't "do I need ordering?" — it's "what actually breaks if messages arrive out of order or more than once?" The Core Difference SQS Standard: Throughput: high (can scale via sharding, region defaults are generous) Delivery: at-least-once — the same message can appear more than once Ordering: best-effort — mes