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:What are the scenarios of SMQ?

Last Updated:Sep 02, 2024

This topic describes the typical scenarios of Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS).

You can use MNS in the following scenarios:

  1. Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS) is integrated with other Alibaba Cloud services to ensure the reliability and flexibility of applications.

  2. An Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS) message queue is used as a task queue. Each message represents a task and requires a process. Multiple Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances can read messages from the queue and run the corresponding tasks.

  3. Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS) is used to store event notifications of a business process. Each event corresponds to a message. Applications can read and process messages in the queue.