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."
"There is no setup just some easy configuration required."
"I am able to find out what's going on very easily."
"The solution is easy to scale and cost-effective."
"The libraries that connect and manage the queues are rich in features."
"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."
"With SQS, we can trigger events in various cloud environments. It offers numerous benefits for us."
"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."
"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."
"The product should improve its monitoring capabilities. It needs to improve the pricing also."
"Depending on your use cases, Amazon MQ can be cheap or expensive."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The current visibility timeout of five minutes is okay. However, I'd like to explore the possibility of extending it for specific use cases."
"Sending or receiving messages takes some time, and it could be quicker."
"Support could be improved."
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, IBM MQ and Oracle Event Hub Cloud Service. See our Amazon MQ vs. Amazon SQS report.
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