I’m a fool, tried to follow documentation, and 100% caused this myself. I had setup supservisord to run queue:work, but the example from the laravel docs had “queue:work sqs” which i didn’t notice at the time. Once i fixed my supervisord config, all is working perfectly. @david thanks for making sure i knew that your application is not in fact broken, and getting me to keep looking. I hope if anyone else makes this dumb mistake, they find this thread, and spend less time to resolve than I did.