Delete All Messages in an Amazon SQS Queue via AWS CLI

Amazon SQS or Simple Queue Service is a fast, reliable, scalable, fully managed message queuing service. There is also AWS CLI or Command Line Interface available to use with the service.

If you have a lot of messages in a queue, this command will show the approximate number:

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$ aws sqs get-queue-attributes \
  --queue-url $url \
  --attribute-names ApproximateNumberOfMessages

Where $url is the URL to the Amazon SQS queue.

There is no command to delete all messages yet, but you can chain a few commands together to make it work: