SQS visibility timeout under 60 seconds (including creation default)

What it checks

SQS visibility timeout under 60 seconds (including creation default)

Where it applies

Terraform: aws_sqs_queue

CloudFormation: AWS::SQS::Queue

How to fix it

1. Compute max(consumer.timeout for all consumers of this queue). Set visibility_timeout_seconds to 6× that value per the AWS recommendation.
2. Make consumers idempotent regardless — use an in-message correlation ID, dedupe on DynamoDB with conditional put.

Frameworks

• AWS Well-Architected REL.6

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