AWS sqs scaler to support scaleOnDelayed

[ding1992]

Proposal
Similar to scaleOnInFlight, it'd be appreciated if we could have scaleOnDelayed to indicate whether messageDelayed metric should be counted in to a trigger check.

Use Case
Our service consumes messages from SQS, queue them internally and deletes them from SQS immediately (we can't change this at the moment).
Hence it's possible that scale down would happen while the service is still processing the messages, because SQS is already empty.
We could set a longer cooldownPeriod (e.g. 30mins), but it's still possible that our service could consume and delete new messages between two polling checks (hence 30mins cool down is not refreshed).

If scaleOnDelayed is available, we could set delaySeconds = 10s when we add messages to the queue, and pollingInterval=5s.
This way 30mins cool down would always be refreshed when there is a new message.

Is this a feature you are interested in implementing yourself?
Maybe

Anything else?
No

[JorTurFer]

Hey @ding1992
I think that this could be a good addition if the SDK supports it.
Are you willing to contribute with the feature?
You would have to add the new parameter and the parsing in this file and covering with tests in this other file (and of course update the docs with the new parameter :) )

[ding1992]

#4383

[JorTurFer]

I'll check it tomorrow

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