---
layout: page
title: "AWS SQS"
description: "Instructions on how to publish messages to AWS SQS from Home Assistant."
date: 2016-05-14 16:35
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logo: aws_sqs.png
ha_category: Notifications
ha_release: "0.20"
---

The `aws_sqs` notification platform enables publishing to an [AWS SQS](https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/) message queue.

To use this notification platform in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    platform: aws_sqs
    aws_access_key_id: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
    aws_secret_access_key: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
    region_name: 'us-east-1'
```

Configuration variables:

- **aws_access_key_id** (*Required if aws_secret_access_key is provided*): Your AWS Access Key ID. For more information, please read the [AWS General Reference regarding Security Credentials](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-security-credentials.html). If provided, you must also provide an `aws_secret_access_key` and must **not** provide a `profile_name`.
- **aws_secret_access_key** (*Required if aws_access_key_id is provided*): Your AWS Secret Access Key. For more information, please read the [AWS General Reference regarding Security Credentials](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-security-credentials.html). If provided, you must also provide an `aws_access_key_id` and must **not** provide a `profile_name`.
- **profile_name** (*Optional*): A credentials profile name. For more information, please see the [boto3 documentation section about credentials](http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/configuration.html#shared-credentials-file).
- **region_name** (*Required*): The region identifier to connect to. The default is `us-east-1`.
- **name** (*Optional*): Setting the optional parameter `name` allows multiple notifiers to be created. The default value is `notify`. The notifier will bind to the service `notify.NOTIFIER_NAME`.

### {% linkable_title Usage %}

AWS SQS is a notify platform and thus can be controlled by calling the notify service [as described here](/components/notify/). It will publish a message to the queue for all targets given in the notification payload. A target must be a SQS topic URL. For more information, please see the [SQS docs](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/ImportantIdentifiers.html).

The SQS event payload will contain everything passed in the service call payload. SQS payloads will be published as stringified JSON. All attributes from the payload except message will also be sent as stringified message attributes. Here is an example message that would be published to the SQS queue:

```json
{
  "title": "Test message!",
  "target": "http://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/queue2",
  "data": {
    "test": "okay"
  },
  "message": "Hello world!"
}
```