diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fedfba64584..a00e13aed63 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6066,6 +6066,9 @@ included in the future will have a corresponding CHANGELOG entry in future relea
 - **CUMULUS-1808**
   - Add additional error messaging in `deleteSnsTrigger` to give users more context about where to look to resolve ResourceNotFound error when disabling or deleting a rule.
 
+- **CUMULUS-5046**
+  - Support cross account SQS queues by extracting the owner account ID from the URL and using that in validation of queues.
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - **CUMULUS-2281**
diff --git a/packages/aws-client/src/SQS.ts b/packages/aws-client/src/SQS.ts
index 693ce01bcbc..c9b8a4435cb 100644
--- a/packages/aws-client/src/SQS.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-client/src/SQS.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ export interface SQSMessage extends Message {
 }
 
 export const getQueueNameFromUrl = (queueUrl: string) => queueUrl.split('/').pop();
+export const getQueueOwnerAccountFromUrl = (queueUrl: string) => queueUrl.split('/')[queueUrl.split('/').length - 2];
 
 export const getQueueUrl = (sourceArn: string, queueName: string) => {
   const arnParts = sourceArn.split(':');
@@ -184,12 +185,16 @@ export const deleteSQSMessage = (QueueUrl: string, ReceiptHandle: string) => {
  */
 export const sqsQueueExists = async (queueUrl: string) => {
   const QueueName = getQueueNameFromUrl(queueUrl);
+  const QueueAccount = getQueueOwnerAccountFromUrl(queueUrl);
 
   if (!QueueName) {
     throw new Error(`Unable to determine QueueName from ${queueUrl}`);
   }
 
-  const command = new GetQueueUrlCommand({ QueueName });
+  const command = new GetQueueUrlCommand({
+    QueueName: QueueName,
+    QueueOwnerAWSAccountId: QueueAccount,
+  });
 
   try {
     await sqs().send(command);
diff --git a/packages/aws-client/tests/test-SQS.js b/packages/aws-client/tests/test-SQS.js
index 8748b0a5f2f..3c5b12bbccd 100644
--- a/packages/aws-client/tests/test-SQS.js
+++ b/packages/aws-client/tests/test-SQS.js
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ const { sqs } = require('../services');
 const {
   createQueue,
   getQueueNameFromUrl,
+  getQueueOwnerAccountFromUrl,
   parseSQSMessageBody,
   sqsQueueExists,
   sendSQSMessage,
@@ -78,6 +79,14 @@ test('getQueueNameFromUrl extracts queue name from a queue URL', (t) => {
   t.is(extractedName, queueName);
 });
 
+test('getQueueNameFromUrl extracts queue owner account ID from a queue URL', (t) => {
+  const queueOwnerAccount = '123456789012';
+  const queueName = 'MyQueue';
+  const queueUrl = `https://sqs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/${queueOwnerAccount}/${queueName}`;
+  const extractedOwnerAccount = getQueueOwnerAccountFromUrl(queueUrl);
+  t.is(extractedOwnerAccount, queueOwnerAccount);
+});
+
 test('sendSQSMessage logs errors', async (t) => {
   const testConsole = new TestConsole();
   const log = new Logger({ console: testConsole });