title: How to initiate connection to aws sqs in golang
body: <p>I am building microservices application in golang, and each service talks to another service through sqs, however, i am having the difficulty to initiate the sqs connection when the server is up, so how do i initiate the sqs connection and use it in my service. building the service using go-kit so i have a file named service.go, main.go, endpoint.go and transport.go.</p>
  
  <p>basically i have the code for the connection</p>
  
  <pre><code>creds := credentials.NewStaticCredentials(aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key, token)
      cfg := aws.NewConfig().WithRegion("region").WithCredentials(creds)
      service := sqs.New(session.New(), cfg)
      qURL := "q_url"
  
      receive_params := &amp;sqs.ReceiveMessageInput{
          QueueUrl:            aws.String(qURL),
          MaxNumberOfMessages: aws.Int64(1),
          VisibilityTimeout:   aws.Int64(30),
          WaitTimeSeconds:     aws.Int64(1),
      }
      receive_resp, err := service.ReceiveMessage(receive_params)
      if err != nil {
          log.Println(err)
      }
      fmt.Printf("[Receive message] \n%v \n\n", receive_resp)
      return true, nil
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so how do i initiate the connection and start getting the messages in my services. Thank you all.</p>