Laravel SQS Redrive

Native AWS SQS dead letter queue (DLQ) support for Laravel.

When an SQS queue has a redrive policy configured, this package automatically:

• Detects the redrive policy from SQS and caches it per queue URL
• Aligns Laravel's retry count with SQS maxReceiveCount
• Skips message deletion on failure so SQS natively routes failed messages to the dead letter queue

The Problem

Laravel's default SQS driver deletes messages from SQS immediately after a job fails. This bypasses SQS's native dead letter queue routing entirely — failed messages never reach your DLQ.

Job fails → Laravel calls deleteMessage → Message gone → DLQ never receives it

The Solution

This package lets SQS handle the routing:

Job fails → Message stays in queue → SQS increments receive count → After maxReceiveCount, SQS moves to DLQ

Installation

composer require sumaiazaman/laravel-sqs-redrive

The package auto-discovers the service provider.

Configuration

In your config/queue.php, add a new connection using the sqs-redrive driver:

'connections' => [

    'sqs-redrive' => [
        'driver' => 'sqs-redrive',
        'key' => env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'),
        'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'),
        'prefix' => env('SQS_PREFIX', 'https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/your-account-id'),
        'queue' => env('SQS_QUEUE', 'default'),
        'suffix' => env('SQS_SUFFIX'),
        'region' => env('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION', 'us-east-1'),
    ],

],

Then set your default queue connection:

QUEUE_CONNECTION=sqs-redrive

That's it. No other configuration needed — the package reads the redrive policy directly from SQS.

How It Works

1. Automatic Redrive Policy Detection

When a job is popped from the queue, the package fetches and caches the queue's redrive policy via the SQS getQueueAttributes API. The result is cached for the lifetime of the worker process.

2. Retry Count Alignment

If a redrive policy exists, maxTries() returns maxReceiveCount from the policy. This keeps Laravel's retry logic in sync with SQS — no more conflicts between Laravel's $tries and SQS's receive count.

3. Smart Deletion

• Successful jobs: Deleted from SQS normally
• Failed jobs without DLQ: Deleted from SQS normally (same as default behavior)
• Failed jobs with DLQ: Skipped deletion — SQS handles routing to DLQ

API

The SqsRedriveJob class provides additional methods:

// Check if the queue has a dead letter queue configured
$job->hasDeadLetterQueue(); // bool

// Get the full redrive policy
$job->getRedrivePolicy(); // ['maxReceiveCount' => 3, 'deadLetterTargetArn' => '...']

// maxTries() automatically uses maxReceiveCount when DLQ is configured
$job->maxTries(); // 3

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 12.x or 13.x
• AWS SQS with a redrive policy configured

Testing

composer test

License

MIT