SQS queue should have server-side encryption

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Description

Secure your Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) messages with server-side encryption.

Rationale

Encryption ensures that Amazon SQS messages, which may contain sensitive data, are not available to anonymous or unauthorized users.

Remediation

From the console

Follow the Configuring service-side encryption for a queue(console) docs to learn how to create and use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to manage customer master keys (CMK) for server-side encryption.

From the command line

Define set-queue-attributes in a file. Use your custom KMS Master Key ARN for KmsMasterKeyID. Save the file.
```
{
  "KmsMasterKeyId": "custom_key_arn",
  "KmsDataKeyReusePeriodSeconds": "300"
}
```

Run set-queue-attributes with the queue URL and the file created in step 1.

aws sqs set-queue-attributes
  --queue-url https://us-west-2.queue.amazonaws.com/<insert-account-id>/<insert-sqs-queue-name>
  --attributes file://sqs-sse-enabled.json