We performed a comparison between Amazon SNS and IBM MQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a simple communication service that allows us to communicate with customers."
"Amazon SNS has SMS notifications as well. Most of the other solutions have only email notifications."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SNS is speed. It's really fast."
"Stability has been good for us. It is quite high."
"The initial setup of Amazon SNS was easy."
"Messages easily flow from publisher or application to subscriber."
"We have found the key feature of this solution to be the simplicity of sending out notifications."
"The best aspect of this solution is its simplicity. We just have to create topics and can have as many subscriptions as we want under any topic we create."
"IBM MQ's flexibility has sped up our active communication."
"The message queue and the integration with any development platform/language, i.e., NET and Java, are the most valuable features."
"We use our routing feature when the request is coming from the business application. The request goes to the distributive side and it is routed to the right claim instance."
"Has helped integrate between applications, reduce rework, and costs by reusing working components of existing applications."
"RabbitMQ and Kafka require more steps for setup than IBM MQ. Installation of the IBM product is very simple."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"The methodology and the way in which the platform has been produced as a standard is most valuable. There are so many different versions of it now, but the actual basic functionality and the simplicity of it have made it far easier to be implemented in so many different instances. When I worked with the OS/2 or PS/2 machine environment, the messaging mechanisms were based upon IBM MQ. It is so versatile, which is the main reason that I'm a fan of it."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I recently worked with Firebase, and it provides an option to create a marketing campaign with a title and a specific image to inform our audience about something. We just design the campaign and then use the push notifications. It would be good if Amazon also adds a similar feature."
"There could be more integration with other solutions."
"There needs to be more documentation on the integration with different platforms."
"In future releases, I want to see if the platforms that SMS can reach. It would be a good way to improve it. More platforms to be able to use it."
"I expect Amazon SNS to provide some capabilities to allow the configuration process to be done in a single script."
"We would like the integration with third party applications to be improved within this solution."
"Messages should flow through a gateway without the need for a mediator."
"The tool needs to have direct integration with AvPro."
"There could be a better front-end GUI interface for us, where we can see things more easily."
"The installation of product upgrades and patches is very difficult. It requires the use of the IBM Installation Manager (IM)."
"I would just like a more user-friendly experience to do common administration tasks. I know that you can use MQ Explorer, but having something that's already built in would definitely be useful."
"We are looking at the latest version, and we hope that resilience, high availability, and monitoring will be improved. It can have some more improvements in the heterogeneous messaging feature. The current solution is on-premises, so good integration with public cloud messaging solutions would be useful."
"They need to add the ability to send full messages (header + payload) from the MQ Explorer program, not just the payload."
"It could always be more stable and secure."
"I would like the ability to connect with some of the more recent offerings, such as API Connect; being able to publish our MQ endpoints, the queues, the messaging infrastructure as IT assets."
"It would be great if the dashboard had additional features like a board design."
Amazon SNS is ranked 3rd in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) with 11 reviews while IBM MQ is ranked 1st in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) with 158 reviews. Amazon SNS is rated 9.0, while IBM MQ is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon SNS writes "The best service available with easy message flow and a pay-as-you-go model". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM MQ writes "Offers the ability to batch metadata transfers between systems that support MQ as the communication method". Amazon SNS is most compared with Amazon EventBridge, PubSub+ Event Broker and TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, whereas IBM MQ is most compared with ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, VMware Tanzu Data Services, Red Hat AMQ and PubSub+ Event Broker. See our Amazon SNS vs. IBM MQ report.
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