Same message many times

[pizzarob]

I have a message which triggers an upload of files. Since these files can be quite large the process may take some time. During this long interval of time the same message is posted to the server causing an endless loop of trying to upload these very large files. Any suggestions in regards to de-duping so only one of these messages is being processed at once?

[Yuri-Bartochevis]

+1, Same issue from my side.
Could we add support to set the in-flight time of each message?

From the EB side in AWS, it's called Visibility Timeout.

[mogadanez]

Its typically solved by using proper settings in SQS queue.
visibility timeout should be slightly bigger than potential processing time/ timeout of you processing service

Are you suggesting to modify messages itself?