We performed a comparison between Amazon MQ and Amazon SQS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Message Queue (MQ) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Amazon MQ is a very scalable solution."
"The initial Amazon MQ setup is very easy both when you do it on your own or use the self-managed instance."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its managed service aspect. It's simple to implement and use. It requires minimal effort to maintain business operations."
"I appreciate that Amazon SQS is fully integrated with Amazon and can be accessed through normal functions or serverless functions, making it very user-friendly. Additionally, the features are comparable to those of other solutions."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SQS is the interface."
"It's very quick and easy to build or set up Amazon SQS."
"It is stable and scalable."
"There is no setup just some easy configuration required."
"The libraries that connect and manage the queues are rich in features."
"I am able to find out what's going on very easily."
"The solution is easy to scale and cost-effective."
"The product should improve its monitoring capabilities. It needs to improve the pricing also."
"Amazon MQ is a good solution for small and medium-sized enterprises. It's open-source software, which means it's cheaper than its competitors."
"Depending on your use cases, Amazon MQ can be cheap or expensive."
"The tool needs improvement in user-friendliness and discoverability."
"The current visibility timeout of five minutes is okay. However, I'd like to explore the possibility of extending it for specific use cases."
"Support could be improved."
"Be cautious around pay-as-you-use licensing as costs can become expensive."
"It would be easier to have a dashboard that allows us to see everything and manage everything since we have so many queues."
"I do not think that this solution is easy to use and the documentation of this solution has a lot of problems and can be improved in the next release. Most of the time, the images in the document are from older versions."
"Sending or receiving messages takes some time, and it could be quicker."
"As a company that uses IBM solutions, it's difficult to compare Amazon SQS to other solutions. We have been using IBM solutions for a long time and they are very mature in integration and queuing. In my role as an integration manager, I can say that Amazon SQS is designed primarily for use within the Amazon ecosystem and does not have the same level of functionality as IBM MQ or other similar products. It has limited connectivity options and does not easily integrate with legacy systems."
Amazon MQ is ranked 9th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 3 reviews while Amazon SQS is ranked 5th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 13 reviews. Amazon MQ is rated 8.4, while Amazon SQS is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon MQ writes "Provides you with a URL where you can either send or retrieve messages". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon SQS writes "Stable, useful interface, and scales well". Amazon MQ is most compared with Apache Kafka, VMware Tanzu Data Services, IBM MQ, Red Hat AMQ and EMQX, whereas Amazon SQS is most compared with Redis, Apache Kafka, Anypoint MQ, Oracle Event Hub Cloud Service and ActiveMQ. See our Amazon MQ vs. Amazon SQS report.
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