[Yandex Cloud documentation](../../index.md) > [Yandex Message Queue](../index.md) > Concepts > Overview

# Yandex Message Queue concepts

Yandex Message Queue is a message queue service that enables distributed applications and microservices to interact through messaging.

- [Message queues](queue.md)
- [Messages](message.md)
- [Deduplication](deduplication.md)
- [Visibility timeout](visibility-timeout.md)
- [Long Polling](long-polling.md)
- [What is Dead Letter Queue (DLQ)?](dlq.md)
- [Delay queues](delay-queues.md)
- [Quotas and limits in Message Queue](limits.md)