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Amazon MQ vs CloudAMQP: What are the differences?
Introduction
Amazon MQ and CloudAMQP are two popular messaging services used for building scalable and reliable applications. While both services provide messaging capabilities, there are several key differences between them. In this article, we will explore and highlight six key differences between Amazon MQ and CloudAMQP.
Managed Service vs. Self-hosted: One of the primary differences between Amazon MQ and CloudAMQP is the hosting model. Amazon MQ is a fully managed service that is provided by AWS, while CloudAMQP is a self-hosted service where users are responsible for managing and maintaining the underlying infrastructure.
Ecosystem and Integration: Amazon MQ is tightly integrated with other AWS services and provides seamless integration with services like Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, and AWS Lambda. On the other hand, CloudAMQP supports integration with various platforms and frameworks, making it suitable for a broader range of applications.
Scalability: When it comes to scalability, Amazon MQ provides an automatically scalable environment as it is built on top of the Apache ActiveMQ message broker. In contrast, CloudAMQP offers manual scalability, where users have to manually scale the infrastructure based on their requirements.
Pricing: The pricing models of Amazon MQ and CloudAMQP differ significantly. Amazon MQ follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where users pay for the resources consumed, including message throughput and storage. CloudAMQP, on the other hand, offers several pricing plans based on the required features and message volumes.
Monitoring and Management: Amazon MQ provides comprehensive monitoring and management capabilities through the AWS Management Console, allowing users to easily monitor the health and performance of their messaging environment. CloudAMQP also offers monitoring tools and integrations but may require additional setup and configuration.
Support and Documentation: AWS provides extensive documentation, support, and community forums for Amazon MQ, ensuring users can easily find resources and assistance whenever needed. CloudAMQP also offers documentation and support but may have different levels of support depending on the chosen pricing plan.
In Summary, Amazon MQ is a fully managed service tightly integrated with the AWS ecosystem, providing automatic scalability and pay-as-you-go pricing, while CloudAMQP is a self-hosted service with broader platform support, manual scalability, and flexible pricing plans.
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.
Mithiridi, I believe you are talking about two different things. 1. If you need to process messages with delays of more 15m or at specific times, it's not a good idea to use queues, independently of tool SQM, Rabbit or Amazon MQ. you should considerer another approach using a scheduled job. 2. For dead queues and policy retries RabbitMQ, for example, doesn't support your use case. https://medium.com/@kiennguyen88/rabbitmq-delay-retry-schedule-with-dead-letter-exchange-31fb25a440fc I'm not sure if that is possible SNS/SQS support, they have a maximum delay for delivery (maxDelayTarget) in seconds but it's not clear the number. You can check this out: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sns-message-delivery-retries.html
In addition to being a lot cheaper, Google Cloud Pub/Sub allowed us to not worry about maintaining any more infrastructure that needed.
We moved from a self-hosted RabbitMQ over to CloudAMQP and decided that since we use GCP anyway, why not try their managed PubSub?
It is one of the better decisions that we made, and we can just focus about building more important stuff!
Pros of Amazon MQ
- Supports low IQ developers7
- Supports existing protocols (JMS, NMS, AMQP, STOMP, …)3
- Easy to migrate existing messaging service2
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- Some of the best customer support you'll ever find4
- Easy to provision3
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- Slow AF4
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