Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) is a fully managed message queue service provided by AWS. You can store and transmit any volume of data without losing messages, ensuring reliable and asynchronous communication between distributed components. This document describes how to connect IBM watsonx Orchestrate to Amazon SQS and use its skills on watsonx Orchestrate.

Connecting to Amazon SQS

Connect to the app according to the credential type that you or your team want to use.

If you want to connect the app to the Orchestrate Agent skill set, skill sets from AI assistants, or the Team skill set with Team credentials, refer to Managing app connections.

If you want to connect to the app to the Personal skill set or the Team skill set with Member credentials, refer to Connecting to apps.

Configuring the connection

To connect watsonx Orchestrate to Amazon SQS, complete the following steps:

  1. Click Connect app.

  2. Specify the Secret access key and Access key ID.

  3. Specify the Region where the server that hosts your Amazon SQS is located.

    • You can find the region at the end of the URL after you log in to the AWS Management Console. For example, https://us-east-2.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home?region=us-east-2#.

  4. Click Connect app.

Note: The icon A green check icon appears to show that the app is connected. indicates that the connection was successfully established.

Retrieving Secret access key and Access key ID

To find the Secret access key and Access key ID, complete the following steps:

  1. Go to AWS Management Console.
  2. In the Security Credentials page, click your account name.
  3. Select My Security Credentials.
  4. Select the AWS IAM Credentials tab. You can find the existing access key IDs.
  5. To create an access key, click Create access key.
  6. Click Download credentials. Your Access key ID and Secret access key are downloaded.

Technical parameters

The following table contains the technical parameters required by some skills of this app and instructions to retrieve them.

Parameters Details
Queue URL To get the queue URL, use Get all queues skill.

What to do next

After you connect to the app, you can use the Amazon SQS skills. For more information see, Using the chat.

To learn about the available skills, see List of prebuilt apps, skills and skill flows.

Parent topic:

→ Connecting to apps