SQS - Send Messages in Batch to a Queue

The PHP AWS SDK has a method called sendMessageBatch which allows you to send multiple messages to SQS, as long as they're on the same Queue:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-sdk-php/v3/api/api-sqs-2012-11-05.html#sendmessagebatch

Which is nice, because it means you don't have to connect to SQS multiple times in one request.

However, Laravel's Queue abstractions don't seem to support this. As far as I could see, there's a bulk method on Queue, however, the implementation for that simply loops through an array of jobs and sends them one by one:

https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.4/src/Illuminate/Queue/Queue.php

Is there something I'm missing, or do I just need to access the SQS class directly and bypass Laravel's abstractions?