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."Stability has been good for us. It is quite high."
"Push notifications are the most valuable. I have mostly used push notifications for my system. Amazon SNS supports all devices for push notification services. It supports iOS, Android, and Windows notifications. It provides reliable push notification services. We have queues, and we can track which notifications have failed or had some issues. We can then figure out the issue. We can also debug the issue because of which our push notification didn't reach the end users."
"The integration between the features is excellent."
"Messages easily flow from publisher or application to subscriber."
"The mobile push notifications are the most valuable. Previously, we used to use Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) for this functionality. It is a Google service for sending push notifications. Android did not have a good service for sending push notifications, but now, Amazon SNS integrates with FCM. Under the road, it is actually using FCM, but we can see all the metrics on our AW service itself, which makes it a lot easier instead of using a third-party service for this particular functionality."
"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."
"The initial setup of Amazon SNS was easy."
"It's a simple communication service that allows us to communicate with customers."
"It's highly scalable. It provides various ways to establish high availability and workloads. E.g., you can spread workloads inside of your clusters."
"We have found the MQ messaging topologies valuable."
"Secure, safe, and very fast."
"This solution has improved and influenced the communication between different applications, then standardized that communication."
"IBM MQ is the right choice because of the stability and the performance. And from the support perspective, it's enough to have a really small team."
"It also has a backup queue concept and topics, features that I have not seen anywhere else. I like these features very much."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, I would like to have better customer support for SNS. We can then manage it very easily."
"We would like the integration with third party applications to be improved within this solution."
"The tool needs to have direct integration with AvPro."
"Messages should flow through a gateway without the need for a mediator."
"It could get a face lift with a modern marketing campaign."
"IBM MQ's pricing is higher than its competitors'."
"The issue is that they're using a very old clustering model."
"The clustering capabilities have provided some difficulties when it comes to resiliency. This has been a challenge for managing the environment."
"IBM MQ could improve capacity, monitoring, and automatization."
"It's not always easy for applications to connect to IBM MQ, but I think it's fine in general."
"Scaling is difficult with IBM MQ."
"In terms of volume, it is not able to handle a huge volume. We also have limitations of queues related to IBM MQ. We often need to handle a very big volume, but currently we do have limitations. If those kinds of limitations could be relaxed, it would help us to work better."
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 "Reliable and stable solution that includes support from the IBM technical team". Amazon SNS is most compared with Amazon EventBridge, PubSub+ Event Broker and TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, whereas IBM MQ is most compared with Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, VMware RabbitMQ, Red Hat AMQ and Amazon SQS. See our Amazon SNS vs. IBM MQ report.
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