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Amazon MQ
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Amazon MQ

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What is Amazon MQ?

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud.

Amazon MQ is a tool in the Background Jobs category of a tech stack.

Amazon MQ Pros & Cons

Pros of Amazon MQ

  • ✓Supports low IQ developers
  • ✓Supports existing protocols (JMS, NMS, AMQP, STOMP, …)
  • ✓Easy to migrate existing messaging service

Cons of Amazon MQ

  • ✗Slow AF

Amazon MQ Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Amazon MQ?

Kafka

Kafka

Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.

Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS

Transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available. With SQS, you can offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available messaging cluster, while paying a low price for only what you use.

Celery

Celery

Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.

MQTT

MQTT

It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. It is useful for connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium.

ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ

Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Apache ActiveMQ is released under the Apache 2.0 License.

Amazon MQ Integrations

AWS IAM, Amazon CloudWatch, ActiveMQ are some of the popular tools that integrate with Amazon MQ. Here's a list of all 3 tools that integrate with Amazon MQ.

AWS IAM
AWS IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch
ActiveMQ
ActiveMQ

Amazon MQ Discussions

Discover why developers choose Amazon MQ. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Kavitha Padmakumar
Kavitha Padmakumar

devops engineer

May 18, 2023

Needs adviceonCloudAMQPCloudAMQPAmazon MQAmazon MQ

How is CloudAMQP different from Amazon MQ?

which is the better one to use?

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Pedro Arnal Puente
Pedro Arnal Puente

CTO at SonoSuite

Jul 8, 2019

Needs adviceonRabbitMQRabbitMQAmazon MQAmazon MQRubyRuby

Our command and event buses uses #stomp as protocol, over RabbitMQ in development, and Amazon MQ in production.

Currently bus communicates Ruby and PHP based clients.

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