diff --git a/sqs/sqs.go b/sqs/sqs.go
index 6775da070c7931ed676c8a77ec6cd5c3892ed98e..0e19dc78969fd87d90acd871ab446994aff4947d 100644
--- a/sqs/sqs.go
+++ b/sqs/sqs.go
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func NewSQSMessenger(awsRegion, queueUrl string) (*Messenger, error) {
 // SendSQSMessage sends a message to the queue associated with the messenger
 // headers - string message attributes of the SQS message (see AWS SQS documentation)
 // body - body of the SQS message (see AWS SQS documentation)
-func (m *Messenger) SendSQSMessage(headers map[string]string, body string, currentRequestID *string, headerKey string) (string, error) {
+func (m *Messenger) SendSQSMessage(headers map[string]string, body string, currentRequestID *string, sqsType string, headerKey string) (string, error) {
 	msgAttrs := make(map[string]*sqs.MessageAttributeValue)
 
 	for key, val := range headers {
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ func (m *Messenger) SendSQSMessage(headers map[string]string, body string, curre
 		}
 	}
 
+	msgAttrs["type"] = &sqs.MessageAttributeValue{
+		DataType:    aws.String("String"),
+		StringValue: aws.String(sqsType),
+	}
+
 	res, err := m.service.SendMessage(&sqs.SendMessageInput{
 		MessageAttributes: msgAttrs,
 		MessageBody:       aws.String(body),
@@ -80,7 +85,7 @@ func (m *Messenger) SendSQSMessage(headers map[string]string, body string, curre
 	return *res.MessageId, err
 }
 
-func SendSQSMessage(msgr *Messenger, region string, envQueueURLName string, objectToSend interface{}, currentRequestID *string, headerKey string) error {
+func SendSQSMessage(msgr *Messenger, region string, envQueueURLName string, objectToSend interface{}, currentRequestID *string, sqsType string, headerKey string) error {
 	if msgr == nil {
 		var err error
 		msgr, err = NewSQSMessenger(region, os.Getenv(envQueueURLName))
@@ -96,7 +101,7 @@ func SendSQSMessage(msgr *Messenger, region string, envQueueURLName string, obje
 	}
 
 	headers := map[string]string{"Name": "dummy"}
-	msgID, err := msgr.SendSQSMessage(headers, string(jsonBytes), currentRequestID, headerKey)
+	msgID, err := msgr.SendSQSMessage(headers, string(jsonBytes), currentRequestID, sqsType, headerKey)
 	if err != nil {
 		logs.ErrorWithMsg("Failed to send sqs event", err)
 		return err