What can be done to reduce Amazon SQS costs for this application?

A developer added a new feature to an application running on an Amazon EC2 instance that uses Amazon SQS. After deployment, the developer noticed a significant increase in Amazon SQS costs. When monitoring the Amazon SQS metrics on Amazon CloudWatch, the developer found that on average one message per minute is posted on this queue.

What can be done to reduce Amazon SQS costs for this application?
A . Increase the Amazon SQS queue polling timeout.
B . Scale down the Amazon SQS queue to the appropriate size for low traffic demand.
C . Configure push delivery via Amazon SNS instead of polling the Amazon SQS queue.
D . Use an Amazon SQS first-in, first-out (FIFO) queue instead of a standard queue.

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Answer: A