Pushing a file to a desktop app using aws

Question

I need to push file to a C# desktop app that I'm creating. I'm planning to use Amazon web services (aws) and specifically SQS and S3. My idea is to long poll the SQS queue continuously in a separate thread. If there is a message it will contain a link to download it from S3.

Is this a good method of pushing files to a desktop app using aws or are there better methods?

I also looked at Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), but it seems to be more suited to mobile devices?

Thanks

Answer 1

Its should work fine; just keep in mind that messages in an SQS Queue will expire after 14 days, but as long as your desktop runs more frequently than that, it should work OK.