Connecting Amazon SNS to Amazon SQS Queues

I want to share a very simple but working example of how to connect AWS SNS with AWS SQS using Node and 'aws-sdk' We will set it up together to make it properly working on your machine (locally). Here are the basic steps we need to take:

• setup the 2 services directly on AWS Console
• run the code locally

AWS Admin Console

First step is setting up AWS properly from the Console

I highly suggest to follow this guide
Please write down your TopicArn for SNS and your QueueUrl for SQS during the process!
http://budiirawan.com/how-to-connect-amazon-sns-to-amazon-sqs-queues/

Here is what you have done so far:

• Create SNS Topic
• Create SQS Queue
• Configure SQS Queue Permissions
• Create SQS Subscriber

Please make sure you can manually publish a message to the SNS topic you created, and consume it from the SQS queue!

We have now one more step:

Set up IAM User and give him access to SNS and SQS
Let's do it together:

• Go to 'Services' and 'IAM'click on 'Add user'

• Click on 'Add user'

• Give the user 'Programmatic access', and move to 'Next: Permissions'

• Give the user full access to both AmazonSNS and AmazonSQS

IMPORTANT! These permissions are fine only when running locally! User permissions must be changed in production environment!

• Finally write down "Access Key Id" and "Secret Access Key" for the user. You need them later

Running locally

Clone the repo, install the dependencies and compile the typescript files

git clone [email protected]:L-oris/SNStoSQS.git
cd SNStoSQS
cp config.example.json config.json
yarn && yarn build

Write down your credentials into 'config.json' you just created

{
  "accessKeyId": "",
  "secretAccessKey": "",
  "region": "",
  "snsTopicArn": "",
  "sqsQueueUrl": ""
}

Setup finished!

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Now you can publish and consume events by either 1- Running commands from the terminal or 2- Sending HTTP requests

1. Running commands from the terminal
   

These are the 2 scripts available

yarn publishEvent --message='Your custom message'

yarn consumeEvent

When publishing an event, you can pass the --message flag with your custom message, default is "Hello There"

2. Sending HTTP Requests

Turn on the server on port 3000

yarn start

Then send HTTP requests (using Postman for example) to these 2 endpoints

• POST http://localhost:3000/publish You can write a custom message to the body of the POST request, following this format

{
  "message": "Your custom message"
}

Otherwise "Hello There" is the default message

• GET http://localhost:3000/consume

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After sending some events (and before consuming them) you should be able to see some messages waiting in the queue

Final notes

The following code wants to be simple and easily understandable, as a quick-intro guide. It does not have proper error handling and test coverage for production environment!