What is the best way to work with SQS queues in local environments?

Question

I am currently working in an environment based on microservices.
In my environments in "production". I have some SQS queues with the names:

-** pro-update-profile**

and for test environments

-** test-update-profile**

I was thinking of setting up a queue called

-** dev-update-profile**

for all developers in their local environments, but they would have message crossing problems when developing and testing in their local environments receiving messages from other developers.

**What is the best way to solve this problem?** I could also create a queue for each developer with initial prefixes of their names when starting their local environments automatically, but it would have too many queues in SQS.

Uri Segev · Accepted Answer

My recommendation would be your last option, i.e., create a queue for each developer with their name in the queue name to identify them. I understand that this will create many queues. One way to overcome this would be to create a separate account per developer, or at least per team. This way the number of queues per account will be small.

A-Shevchenko · Answer

Probably you can use [localstack](https://github.com/localstack/localstack) for local dev environments, it supports SQS in free version

kennyk · Answer

Define "too many queues" - there is no quota on the # of queues in an account.  More fundamentally, using a single account like this with only a naming convention separating dev, test, prod queues is inherently risky; an accident could easily place messages in an incorrect queue.  The solution is to completely separate the environments.  In Azure we would use separate subscriptions/resource groups, in GCP we would use separate projects.  In AWS we use separate accounts.  Take a look at organizations / control tower so you can 'vend' separate accounts for test, dev, or individuals whenever needed.

What is the best way to work with SQS queues in local environments?

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