# Is there any function to get the number of remaining messages in AWS SQS queue?

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**Created:** [March 14, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-function-to-get-the-number-of-remaining-messages-in-aws-sqs-queue/2653 "2017-03-14T03:26:57Z")
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or just whether it is empty or not.

I did not find any function in `AWS.jl`

try catch is an alternative to tell whether the queue is empty or not, but seems not that `clear`.