Use multiple connection in laravel queue

Using laravel 5.5, we need to use both Redis and SQS queues. Redis for our internal messaging and SQS for messages coming from a 3rd party.

config/queue.php has various connection information. The first key is the default connection. That default is the one used by queue:work artisan command.

'default' => 'redis',

'connections' => [
    'sqs' => [            
        'driver' => 'sqs',
        'key'    => env('ACCESS_KEY_ID', ''),
        'secret' => env('SECRET_ACCESS_KEY', ''),
        'prefix' => 'https://sqs.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/account-id/',
        'queue'  => 'my-sqs-que'),
        'region' => 'us-west-1',
    ],


    'redis' => [
        'driver' => 'redis',
        'connection' => 'default',
        'queue' => env('REDIS_QUE' , 'default'),
        'retry_after' => 90,
    ],

The question is how can we use different queue connection for queue:work.

If --queue=my-sqs-que is supplied, with default connection set to redis, laravel looks under redis and obviously does not find my-sqs-que

Setting default to sqs will disable processing our internal messages.

via Chebli Mohamed