Running Periodic tasks on elastic beanstalk workers with FIFO queue

Question

I was trying to setup a periodic task (using cron.yaml) in EB worker environment which is using a FIFO SQS queue. When cron job tries submit job to SQS, it fails because it does not have message group id which is required for FIFO queue.

Is there a way around this? (Apart from using some other scheduling mechanism or using general queue)

scheduler: dropping leader, due to failed to send message for job 'italian-job', because: The request must contain the parameter MessageGroupId. (Aws::SQS::Errors::MissingParameter)

Update: As a work around, I created a cloud watch trigger to start a lambda which sends messages to SQS queue.

Answer 1

From Amazon's docs:

Note: If you configure your worker environment with an existing SQS queue and choose an Amazon SQS FIFO queue, periodic tasks aren't supported.

Only standard queues are supported for periodic tasks, not FIFO queues.

See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/using-features-managing-env-tiers.html#worker-periodictasks