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Amazon EventBridge vs IBM MQ comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon EventBridge
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
6th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM MQ
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
174
Ranking in other categories
Business Activity Monitoring (1st), Message Queue (MQ) Software (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Amazon EventBridge is 6.0%, up from 5.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM MQ is 16.3%, down from 28.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM MQ16.3%
Amazon EventBridge6.0%
Other77.7%
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
 

Featured Reviews

HemantKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Automated event monitoring has improved alerting and simplifies scheduling for data workflows
The best features Amazon EventBridge offers include the ability to integrate multiple AWS services such as SNS, Lambda, SQS, and ECS with Amazon EventBridge. You can filter events based on routing rules, and it is serverless and easy to auto-scale. You can also manage event routing across cross-accounts and schedule cron jobs inside Amazon EventBridge, which provides numerous use cases. The impact of Amazon EventBridge on my organization is very positive. I can directly receive notifications via Amazon EventBridge because I have integrated my Redshift queries inside my JSON payload, and I receive notifications over email as well as over Squadcast based on the events triggered from the Redshift side. Amazon EventBridge helps reduce manual work significantly. Previously, when I did not receive Redshift events and my Redshift query got stuck, which mainly happened during maintenance time and impacted the customer side, I had no way to address it. By monitoring those Redshift query events inside Amazon EventBridge, I can receive timely alerts via Squadcast, allowing me to monitor and fix the respective issues with the help of the Redshift data team.
David Pizinger - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Technical Leader at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Has faced unexpected VM restarts but continues to deliver messages reliably
I'm not sure if we've utilized IBM MQ's high availability. Our MQ VMs are set up in clusters, and I think our queue managers are set up in pairs. However, I don't know if we actually use any specific high availability features of IBM MQ that are out of the box. We have it architected with high availability because we use F5 load balancers, and everything about our architecture is highly available. I haven't personally used the management tools with IBM MQ, but we do have them, and our middleware folks leverage them. I can't really comment on them because I don't use them myself. I don't think the management tools help optimize message flows, and I'm not really aware of how they help in this. I'm not familiar with dynamic routing for IBM MQ.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Amazon EventBridge is very flexible."
"Amazon EventBridge allows for customization at my level, providing many options for determining which services are dependent, what account to use, and when the Lambda will trigger."
"It has self-explanatory documentation and works with most projects."
"The best feature is that it allows you to perform recurring tasks efficiently."
"It's very simple to set up our cron with Amazon EventBridge."
"The impact of Amazon EventBridge on my organization is very positive."
"Setting up MQ is easy; we had a "grow as you go" implementation strategy, starting with a single channel and progressing to multiple queues and channels depending on the systems and integrations with other systems, resulting in a gradual deployment and expansion as we grew the services interacting with the core system using MQ."
"We have stability in our environment because of the product, as we can keep adding solutions to the mixture and it still performs as is, providing a more stable process."
"I think the whole product is useful. Their database and all is very good, and the product is fine. The fact that it ensures message delivery is probably the most important thing. I also like that you're able to trace and track everything. If it doesn't arrive at the destination, it will go back to the queue, and no message will be lost."
"The most valuable feature of IBM MQ is transaction processing."
"There are a lot of extensible options for security, i.e., various things you can do. It's pretty easy to navigate."
"The reliability is a benefit."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its reliability, efficiency, and the capacity to bring value."
"Stability is awesome. MQ is up all the time."
 

Cons

"It would be good if the solution provided a feature to add multiple Cron expressions in one rule."
"Amazon EventBridge can be improved as there are numerous use cases, but it is not able to handle as many events as compared to other tools such as Kafka or RabbitMQ."
"I would rate the stability eight out of ten because sometimes I need to monitor EventBridge since there are occasions where it is not triggering."
"It would be easy if we had an option to select multiple things to run the script from Monday to Friday."
"Amazon EventBridge doesn't have the feature of event replay."
"Currently, it only supports triggering one job at a time. It would be helpful if it could handle multiple jobs or triggers simultaneously. What I mean is that currently, we can only perform one job at a time."
"The worst part is the monitoring or admin, especially in the ACE or Broker."
"They could integrate monitoring into the solution, a bit more than they do now. Currently, they have opened the REST API so you can get statistic and accounting information and details from MQ and build your own monitoring, if you want. IBM can improve the solution in this direction."
"It just needs a better installation."
"I don’t like legacy view of MQ."
"Normally, the system is very stable but we've actually just got a call, "Part of it's down!" So, at the moment, we have got a bit of downtime."
"The user interface might be an area with room for improvement, but we use MQ Explorer and that helps solve a lot of our problems there."
"However, it would be great if the dashboard had additional features like a board design or picture management features."
"IBM support team is really only concerned with the IBM cloud. They're not supporting any other cloud platforms or suggestions."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon EventBridge's pricing is pretty cheap."
"It is a very expensive product compared to the open source products in the market."
"I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
"This solution requires a license and we have purchased an enterprise license."
"IBM products, in general, have high licensing costs and support costs are too high."
"You have to license per application installation and if you expand vertically or horizontally, you will be paying for more licenses. The licenses are approximately $10,000 to $15,000 a license, it can get expensive quite quickly."
"It's super expensive, so ask them if they can consolidate some other licensing costs. But, IBM is IBM, so I guess we'll pay for it."
"In terms of cost, IBM MQ is slightly on the higher side."
"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price a seven. The product is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
23%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise147
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon EventBridge?
Amazon EventBridge can be improved as there are numerous use cases, but it is not able to handle as many events as compared to other tools such as Kafka or RabbitMQ. In Amazon EventBridge, you can ...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon EventBridge?
My advice for others looking into using Amazon EventBridge is that if you want a serverless event system and do not want any server to be deployed for monitoring events, and if you are using multip...
What is your primary use case for Amazon EventBridge?
My main use case for Amazon EventBridge is receiving notifications whenever an event triggers. We have set up the payload inside Amazon EventBridge and have integrated Redshift with Amazon EventBri...
What is MQ software?
Hi As someone with 45+ years of experience in the Transaction and Message Processing world, I have seen many "MQ" solutions that have come into the market place. From my perspective, while each pro...
What are the differences between Apache Kafka and IBM MQ?
Apache Kafka is open source and can be used for free. It has very good log management and has a way to store the data used for analytics. Apache Kafka is very good if you have a high number of user...
How does IBM MQ compare with VMware RabbitMQ?
IBM MQ has a great reputation behind it, and this solution is very robust with great stability. It is easy to use, simple to configure and integrates well with our enterprise ecosystem and protocol...
 

Also Known As

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WebSphere MQ
 

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Sample Customers

Hess, Expedia, Kelloggs, Philips, HyperTrack
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