title: Are cron jobs advisable to use as a vehicle for polling messages on AWS SQS?
body: <p>We have a requirement that constantly need to check and pick up messages from SQS. The idea is process the messages asynchronously, so the processor has to pick up and process the messages in SQS.</p>
  
  <p>Are cron jobs advisable to use as a vehicle for polling messages on AWS SQS?</p>
  
  <p>If not, are there other patterns/approaches we could use?</p>
  
  <p>Since we are using Java, we are also considering using JMS, but I'm not sure if it's necessary.</p>