How Mergent Stacked Up Against Amazon SQS SLA in 2022
Mergent's 99.997% uptime in 2022 raises the bar
As organizations continue to rely on distributed systems to power their businesses, message queueing services like Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS) have become increasingly important. These services allow companies to send, receive, and process messages in a reliable and scalable way, making them an essential component of many modern systems.
One common use case for message queueing is background jobs. These are tasks that need to be run periodically or asynchronously, such as sending email notifications or generating reports. By using a message queue, organizations can offload these tasks from their main application, improving performance and scalability.
While SQS has long been a popular choice for background jobs, we are proud to announce that Mergent has outperformed SQS in terms of uptime in 2022. Over the past year, we achieved an impressive 99.997% uptime, beating SQS's SLA of 99.9% uptime.
This may not seem like a significant difference at first glance, but it can have a major impact on the reliability and availability of systems that rely on message queueing for background jobs; a 0.1% difference can translate to almost an entire day of downtime over the course of a year. And when it comes to background jobs, even a few minutes of downtime can have serious consequences, such as missed notifications or incomplete reports.
But it's not just about uptime. Mergent also offers a number of other benefits that make it a strong competitor to SQS for background jobs. We offer a range of advanced features, such as message scheduling, 30-day task history retention periods, and delivery delays. This makes it easy for organizations to fine-tune their background jobs to fit their specific needs.
In addition, we offer a range of pricing options to fit the needs of any organization, with flexible pay-as-you-go pricing starting at $20/mo and volume discounts available. This makes it easy for teams of all sizes to get the background job capabilities they need without breaking the bank.
But perhaps most importantly, Mergent is designed with ease of use in mind. We understand that background jobs and cron tasks are just one part of a larger system, and we strive to make our service as simple and straightforward as possible. Our intuitive APIs and clear documentation make it easy for developers to get up and running quickly, so they can focus on building great products and features for their users.
Ultimately, Mergent is designed to provide reliable, scalable, and feature-rich task queuing for any organization. We are proud to have consistently outperformed SQS in terms of uptime, and we are committed to continuing to deliver the highest level of service to our customers. If you're looking for a serverless task queue, we encourage you to give Mergent a try. We think you'll be impressed by what we have to offer.