README.md

terraform-aws-cloudwatch-event-sqs

Terraform module to provision an AWS Cloudwatch Event which posts directly to an AWS SQS queue.

Usage

module "cloudwatch-event-sqs" {
  source                                    = "spanio/cloudwatch-event-sqs/aws"
  version                                   = "1.2"
  cloudwatch_event_rule_schedule_expression = "<cron expression>"
  # specify other inputs here, as required
}

Requirements

Name	Version
terraform	>= 0.13.0
aws	>= 2.0

Providers

Name	Version
aws	>= 2.0

Resources

Name
aws_sqs_queue
aws_sqs_queue_policy
aws_cloudwatch_event_rule
aws_cloudwatch_event_target

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
name	The name for the SQS queue and Cloudwatch Event	string	cloudwatch-sqs	no
cloudwatch_event_rule_schedule_expression	The rate or cron expression to trigger the Cloudwatch Event	string	null	yes
tags	The tags to add to all generated resources	map(string)	{}	no
sqs_retry_count	The number of receive attempts before SQS will forward the message to a Dead Letter Queue	number	3	no
sqs_visibility_timeout_seconds	The visibility timeout for the queue. If this message is consumed by a Lambda function, this number should be 4 times bigger than the Lambda timeout duration.	number	30	no

Outputs

Name	Description
sqs_arn	The ARN of the generated SQS queue
queue_url	The URL for the generated SQS queue
sqs_dlq_arn	The ARN of the generated SQS DLQ queue