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."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."
"The initial Amazon MQ setup is very easy both when you do it on your own or use the self-managed instance."
"Amazon MQ is a very scalable solution."
"SQS is very stable, and it has lots of features."
"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 libraries that connect and manage the queues are rich in features."
"I am able to find out what's going on very easily."
"One of the useful features is the ability to schedule a call after a certain number of messages accumulate in the container. For example, if there are ten messages in the container, you can perform a specific action."
"We use the tool in interface integrations."
"It's very quick and easy to build or set up Amazon SQS."
"It is stable and scalable."
"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 current visibility timeout of five minutes is okay. However, I'd like to explore the possibility of extending it for specific use cases."
"Be cautious around pay-as-you-use licensing as costs can become expensive."
"There are some issues with SQS's transaction queue regarding knowing if something has been received."
"Sometimes, we have to switch to another component similar to SQS because the patching tool for SQS is relatively slow for us."
"The initial setup of Amazon SQS is in the middle range of difficulty. You need to learn Amazon AWS and know how to navigate, create resources, and structures, and provide rules."
"The tool needs improvement in user-friendliness and discoverability."
"Support could be improved."
"It would be easier to have a dashboard that allows us to see everything and manage everything since we have so many queues."
Amazon MQ is ranked 9th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 3 reviews while Amazon SQS is ranked 4th 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 RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Red Hat AMQ and EMQX, whereas Amazon SQS is most compared with Apache Kafka, Redis, Anypoint MQ, Oracle Event Hub Cloud Service and IBM MQ. See our Amazon MQ vs. Amazon SQS report.
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