Upgrade the SQS Message Limit to 1 MB

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
62/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
aws, python
Domain
cloud

Research direction

The issue names no file or test. Start by locating where this library enforces the 256 KB SQS message limit, then compare that behavior with the linked AWS announcement; done means the library no longer treats 256 KB as the maximum.

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Description

SQS upgraded the message limits to 1 MB from 256 KB in August 2025. Here is the announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/amazon-sqs-max-payload-size-1mib/. But this library still uses 256 KB as the limit.

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Python
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