AWS CLI and Java SDK return incorrect URLs for SQS queues

Question

I have configured my AWS CLI tools with a config file in my home directory with my region set to eu-west-1 and can successfully list queues:

➜  ~ aws sqs list-queues
{
    "QueueUrls": [
        "https://eu-west-1.queue.amazonaws.com/9*********42/second"
    ]
}

I have the following method:

void sendMessage(String msg) {
    AmazonSQS sqs = AmazonSQSClientBuilder.standard()
            .withRegion(Regions.EU_WEST_1)
            .build();

    CreateQueueRequest createQueueRequest = new CreateQueueRequest("second");
    String myQueueURL = sqs.createQueue(createQueueRequest).getQueueUrl();

    System.out.println("A list of queues...");

    for (String qURL : sqs.listQueues().getQueueUrls()) {
        System.out.println("Found queue: " + qURL);
    }

    System.out.println("Sending msg '" + msg + "' to Q: " + myQueueURL);
    sqs.sendMessage(new SendMessageRequest(myQueueURL, msg));
    sqs.sendMessage(new SendMessageRequest("https://sqs.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/2*********73/second", msg + " with URL"));
}

The output from running this method is:

A list of queues...
Found queue: https://sqs.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9*********42/second
Sending msg 'test message' to Q: https://sqs.eu-west-1.queue.amazonaws.com/9*********42/second

The URLs I get from both the AWS CLI and the SDK contain the number 9...42, but this is not what I see in the AWS console. In the console the URL contains the number 2...73.

When I added the URL from the console to my method manually (shown above) I can successfully send a message to the queue, but when I try to use the URLs given by the list-queues operation, the sqs.sendMessage() operation fails silently.

Is there a reason why these URLs could be different?

I should also add that there were two other queues ("first" and "first.fifo") which I have now deleted and no longer show in the console, but both are still listed when I use list-queues. For all these queues, the console URLs always contained the same 2...73 number and the URLs I get from the CLI and SDK always contain the same 9...42 number.

My question is - what is this number and why could it be different?

Mike Mike · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-10T21:31:52

I found the answer almost as soon as I posted the question. The number is the AWS account number and I was using an Access Key/ Secret Key combination from a different account to the one I had expected.

The reason the queues were not disappearing was that I had inadvertently created them myself by sending messages to them.

My sqs.sendMessage() calls were not silently failing, the message was appearing in queues in the other account.

AWS CLI and Java SDK return incorrect URLs for SQS queues

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