SQS - Delivery Delay of 30 minutes

Question

From the documentation of SQS, Max time delay we can configure for a message to hide from its consumers is 15 minutes - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/late

Answer 1

Cloudwatch is likely a better way to do it. You can use a createEvent API with the timer, and have it trigger either a lambda function or an API call to whatever comes next.

Another way to do is to use the "wait" utility in an AWS step function.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/latest/dg/amazon-states-language-wait-state.html

In any case, unless you are extremely sure you will never need anything more than 15 minutes, the SQS backdoor to add the delay seems hacky.