Moving messages from DLQ in Amazon SQS

Question

How do I move messages from a dead letter queue back to the original queue in Amazon SQS?

Can this be done?

Answer 1

Try this:

1. Get message from DLQ
2. Write message to queue
3. Delete message from DLQ

If your process fails after step 2 you'll end up copying the message twice, but you application should be handling re-delivery of messages (or not care) anyway.

Answer 2

You can use a tool like https://github.com/mercury2269/sqsmover to do this.