diff --git a/rest/rest-sqs/src/main/resources/application.conf b/rest/rest-sqs/src/main/resources/application.conf
index bd326c4be..1cfe16ba3 100644
--- a/rest/rest-sqs/src/main/resources/application.conf
+++ b/rest/rest-sqs/src/main/resources/application.conf
@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ akka {
 # TODO - not present in akka http?
 akka.http.server.request-timeout = 21 s
 
+# Amazon SQS allows 256KB message payloads
+akka.http.server.parsing.max-uri-length = 256k