How to allow anonymous access for SendMessage to Amazon SQS?

Question

The AWS SQS docs states that anonymous access is supported: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/faqs/#:~:text=Q%3A%20Does%20Amazon%20SQS%20support%20anonymous%20access%3F

It also provides an example policy that grants a permission to all users: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-basic-examples-of-sqs-policies.html#:~:text=Example%205%3A%20Grant%20a%20permission%20to%20all%20users

I've tried to create an SQS queue with the following access policy:
```
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Id": "__default_policy_ID",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "__owner_statement",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "*"
      },
      "Action": "SQS:*",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}
```
However, an anonymous client (using a cURL request) gets the following error when trying to execute SendMessage: `Access to the resource The specified queue does not exist or you do not have access to it. is denied.`

A previous solution (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32632850/how-do-you-enable-anonymous-write-access-to-sqs-queue) doesn't seem to work anymore.

Is anonymous access to SQS no longer supported by AWS?

Answer

Hi,

The page https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-basic-examples-of-sqs-policies.html will give you details of the exact IAM policies to use to allow anonymous posting to SQS queues (on a tume-limited basis if needed).

See in particular examples 5 & 6.

Example 6 with time-limited allowance:

```
{
   "Version": "2012-10-17",
   "Id": "Queue1_Policy_UUID",
   "Statement": [{
      "Sid":"Queue1_AnonymousAccess_ReceiveMessage_TimeLimit",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": "*",
      "Action": "sqs:ReceiveMessage",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:sqs:*:111122223333:queue1",
      "Condition" : {
         "DateGreaterThan" : {
            "aws:CurrentTime":"2009-01-31T12:00Z"
         },
         "DateLessThan" : {
            "aws:CurrentTime":"2009-01-31T15:00Z"
         }
      }
   }]
}
```

Best

Didier

How to allow anonymous access for SendMessage to Amazon SQS?

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