Celery with Amazon SQS

Question

I want to use Amazon SQS as broker backed of Celery. There’s the SQS transport implementation for Kombu, which Celery depends on. However there is not enough documentation f

Answer 1

For anybody stumbling upon this question, I was able to get Celery working out-of-the-box with SQS (no patching required), but I did need to update to the latest versions of Celery and Kombu for this to work (1.4.5 and 1.5.1 as of now). Use the config lines above and it should work (although you'll probably want to change the default region).

Gotcha: in order to use the URL format above, you need to make sure your AWS secret doesn't contain slashes, as this confuses the URL parser. Just keep generating new secrets until you get one without a slash.