Create a file to install AWS SQS features on Minion start-up sudo vi etc/featuresBoot.d/aws-sqs.boot Add the following lines to disable ActiveMQ and load AWS SQS !minion-jms !opennms-core-ipc-rpc-jms !opennms-core-ipc-sink-camel opennms-core-ipc-rpc-aws-sqs opennms-core-ipc-sink-aws-sqs Configure the AWS SQS via the Karaf shell ssh -p 8201 admin@localhost config:edit org.opennms.core.ipc.aws.sqs(1) config:property-set aws_region us-east-1(2) config:property-set aws_access_key_id my-access-key(3) config:property-set aws_secret_access_key my-secret-access-key(4) config:property-set sink.FifoQueue false(5) config:update(6) 1 Configure the AWS SQS feature. 2 Set AWS SQS region. 3 The AWS SQS access key 4 The AWS SQS secret for the access key 5 If you require consistent ordering of incoming messages, use FIFO queues. The default is false and must match the Core instance setting. 6 Save and update the configuration. Restart the Minion to apply the configuration sudo systemctl restart minion Verify the configuration using the health check in the Karaf Shell ssh -p 8201 admin@localhost Run the health check command opennms:health-check Verify all components are configured properly Verifying the health of the container Connecting to OpenNMS ReST API [ Success ] Verifying installed bundles [ Success ] Connecting to AWS-SQS from RPC [ Success ] Connecting to AWS-SQS from Sink Producer [ Success ] => Everything is awesome You can find available configuration parameters in the Amazon Simple Queue Service reference section.