AWS SQS: Queue Item from Javacript SDK

Use the AWS Javscript SDK to queue a new item in a SQS Standard Queue. This requires a reference to the Javascript SDK (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/index.html). This also uses AWS Congnito to allow an unauth user to access AWS resources.

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AWS.config.region = "us-east-1";
AWS.config.credentials = new AWS.CognitoIdentityCredentials({
    IdentityPoolId: "us-east-1:SOMEGUID",
});


var aws_sqs = new AWS.SQS();


//create sqs item
//this is a custom json object to represent the data we want to pass in
var sqs_message_obj =
{
	type: "customer-support",
	name: "My Name",		
	email: "email@example.com",
	subject: "help",
	body: "how do I create a support ticket?",
};


//turn sqs message into a string
var sqs_message = JSON.stringify(sqs_message_obj);

//object to use in sqs function
var params = {
	MessageBody: sqs_message,
	QueueUrl: "https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/my_id/something-something"            
};


aws_sqs.sendMessage(params, function (err, data)
{	
	if (err)
	{
		// an error occurred		
	}
	else
	{
		// successful response		
	}
});