SQS Message size

Question

From my understanding of the docs, the queue entry size is limited to 256KB. Is the SQS even supposed to hold "objects" that need to passed on to readers of the queue?
What alternate solutions are available in case I need to pass objects that are >256KB in size (split them, maybe?)

Answer 1

In such cases you would store most of the object outside of the message, in S3 or another database and store a pointer to that object within your SQS message.