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.
Message brokers allow different software systems–often using different programming languages, and on different platforms–to communicate and exchange information.
Connecting your current applications to Amazon MQ is easy because it uses industry-standard APIs and protocols for messaging, including JMS, NMS, AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, and WebSocket.
Amazon MQ Single-Instance Broker
A single-instance broker is comprised of one broker in one Availability Zone. The broker communicates with your application and with an AWS storage location.
FAQ
Q: When should I use Amazon MQ vs. Amazon SQS and SNS?
Amazon MQ, Amazon SQS, and Amazon SNS are messaging services that are suitable for anyone from startups to enterprises. If you’re using messaging with existing applications and want to move your messaging to the cloud quickly and easily, we recommend you consider Amazon MQ. It supports industry-standard APIs and protocols so you can switch from any standards-based message broker to Amazon MQ without rewriting the messaging code in your applications. If you are building brand new applications in the cloud, we recommend you consider Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. Amazon SQS and SNS are lightweight, fully managed message queue and topic services that scale almost infinitely and provide simple, easy-to-use APIs. You can use Amazon SQS and SNS to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications, and improve reliability.
Q: When should I use Amazon MQ vs. AWS IoT Message Broker?
You can use Amazon MQ when you want to offload operational overhead and associated costs with an open source messaging application such as ActiveMQ or any commercial message brokers. You can use Amazon MQ when you are migrating from commercial brokers or open source brokers such as ActiveMQ to reduce broker maintenance, licensing costs and improve broker stability. Amazon MQ is also suitable for Application Integration use cases where you are developing new cloud based applications using micro-services that communicate with complex messaging patterns and require low-latency, high availability and message durability. Amazon MQ supports industry standard APIs such as JMS and NMS, and protocols for messaging, including AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, and WebSocket.
You can use AWS IoT Message Broker when your use case involves IoT devices’ telemetry, device management, device security and IoT Analysis. AWS IoT Message Broker is suitable for IoT industry customers connecting large device fleets and collecting telemetry data to send it to native AWS services. AWS IoT Message broker supports industry standard lightweight protocols such as MQTT, HTTP and MQTT over WebSocket.
