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Amazon IoT vs Amazon MQ

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Overview

Amazon IoT
Amazon IoT
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Amazon MQ
Amazon MQ
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Followers325
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Amazon IoT vs Amazon MQ: What are the differences?

Introduction

Amazon IoT and Amazon MQ are two services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offer different capabilities for messaging and communication within an application or system. While both services provide reliable messaging, there are key differences between Amazon IoT and Amazon MQ.

  1. Message Protocols:

    • Amazon IoT supports several message protocols, including MQTT, HTTP, and WebSockets. This allows for flexible and efficient communication between devices and other systems.
    • On the other hand, Amazon MQ primarily uses the AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) and MQTT protocols, enabling reliable and secure messaging between applications.
  2. Focus on IoT Devices:

    • As the name suggests, Amazon IoT is designed specifically for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It provides features such as device shadowing, which allows decoupled communication between devices and applications in a stateful manner.
    • Amazon MQ, on the other hand, is a managed message broker service that is not specific to IoT devices. It is designed for general message-oriented middleware use cases, providing support for various messaging patterns and protocols.
  3. Message Persistence:

    • Amazon IoT primarily relies on device shadows to store and persist messages. Device shadows allow devices to synchronize their states and communicate with applications even if the device is offline.
    • In contrast, Amazon MQ provides durable message persistence by storing messages in message retention periods, ensuring that messages are not lost even in the event of system failures.
  4. Scalability and Availability:

    • Amazon IoT provides automatic scaling capabilities, allowing it to handle large numbers of devices and deliver messages reliably. It also offers device management and monitoring features.
    • Amazon MQ is designed to be highly available and scalable, providing automatic infrastructure maintenance and scaling. It offers ActiveMQ as the underlying message broker, enabling it to handle high message volumes efficiently.
  5. Pricing Model:

    • Amazon IoT pricing is primarily based on the number of messages processed by devices and the features used. This allows for flexible pricing based on the specific requirements of the IoT application.
    • Amazon MQ pricing is based on the instance size and message throughput, providing a pay-as-you-go model. This allows users to choose the appropriate instance size and pay only for the messaging capacity they need.

In summary, Amazon IoT focuses on IoT devices, supports multiple protocols, and provides features like device shadowing. On the other hand, Amazon MQ is a general message broker service, primarily using AMQP and MQTT protocols, with durable message persistence and high scalability.

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Advice on Amazon IoT, Amazon MQ

MITHIRIDI
MITHIRIDI

Software Engineer at LightMetrics

May 8, 2020

Needs adviceonAmazon SQSAmazon SQSAmazon MQAmazon MQ

I want to schedule a message. Amazon SQS provides a delay of 15 minutes, but I want it in some hours.

Example: Let's say a Message1 is consumed by a consumer A but somehow it failed inside the consumer. I would want to put it in a queue and retry after 4hrs. Can I do this in Amazon MQ? I have seen in some Amazon MQ videos saying scheduling messages can be done. But, I'm not sure how.

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Detailed Comparison

Amazon IoT
Amazon IoT
Amazon MQ
Amazon MQ

AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With AWS IoT, your applications can keep track of and communicate with all your devices, all the time, even when they aren’t connected.

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.

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Statistics
Stacks
123
Stacks
55
Followers
143
Followers
325
Votes
1
Votes
12
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 1
    Websocket broadcast
Pros
  • 7
    Supports low IQ developers
  • 3
    Supports existing protocols (JMS, NMS, AMQP, STOMP, …)
  • 2
    Easy to migrate existing messaging service
Cons
  • 4
    Slow AF
Integrations
No integrations available
AWS IAM
AWS IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch
ActiveMQ
ActiveMQ

What are some alternatives to Amazon IoT, 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.

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.

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.

NSQ

NSQ

NSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform designed to operate at scale, handling billions of messages per day. It promotes distributed and decentralized topologies without single points of failure, enabling fault tolerance and high availability coupled with a reliable message delivery guarantee. See features & guarantees.

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.

ZeroMQ

ZeroMQ

The 0MQ lightweight messaging kernel is a library which extends the standard socket interfaces with features traditionally provided by specialised messaging middleware products. 0MQ sockets provide an abstraction of asynchronous message queues, multiple messaging patterns, message filtering (subscriptions), seamless access to multiple transport protocols and more.

Apache NiFi

Apache NiFi

An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. It supports powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic.

Gearman

Gearman

Gearman allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport of database replication events.

Memphis

Memphis

Highly scalable and effortless data streaming platform. Made to enable developers and data teams to collaborate and build real-time and streaming apps fast.

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