How to update/rename a SQS queue name

Question

I have created a SQS queue with certain name. Now I want to prefix ='-dev' to the queue name so that its easy for me to identify environment.

Answer 1

To rename the queue you will have to delete the existing one and recreate it with the new name as you can see in the parameter section

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-sqs-queues.html

If you want to identify the queue, you can use tags, for more information you can check here

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-cost-allocation-tags-for-amazon-sqs/

And in a similar question about queue tagging here:

Amazon SQS Tagging