---
title: "Creating an AWS SQS with Pulumi"
meta_desc: "Learn how to use Pulumi to define an AWS SQS resource which can then be deployed to AWS and managed as infrastructure as code."
meta_image: "/images/docs/service/aws-sqs.png"
service: "SQS"
description: "is a fully managed message queuing service that makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications"
aws_here: "https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/"
menu:
  aws:
    name: SQS
    parent: aws-guides
aliases:
- /docs/aws/sqs/
---

## Create an AWS SQS resource using `@pulumi/aws`

The `@pulumi/aws` library enables fine-grained control over the AWS SQS resource meaning it can be coded, deployed, and managed entirely in code.

```javascript
const aws = require("@pulumi/aws");

const queue = new aws.sqs.Queue("myqueue");
```