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."The most valuable feature of Amazon SNS is speed. It's really fast."
"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."
"Messages easily flow from publisher or application to subscriber."
"It's a simple communication service that allows us to communicate with customers."
"The integration between the features is excellent."
"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."
"Amazon SNS has SMS notifications as well. Most of the other solutions have only email notifications."
"The initial setup of Amazon SNS was easy."
"IBM MQ deals mainly with the queuing mechanism. It passes the data and it publishes it. These two abilities are the most valuable features."
"This solution has improved and influenced the communication between different applications, then standardized that communication."
"The message queue and the integration with any development platform/language, i.e., NET and Java, are the most valuable features."
"Clustering is one of its most valuable features."
"It's highly scalable. It provides various ways to establish high availability and workloads. E.g., you can spread workloads inside of your clusters."
"The most valuable feature is the stability. It's perfect in this way."
"The product helps us monitor messages with other queues, view duplicated messages and control undelivered messages."
"IBM MQ is an easy-to-use and stable solution."
"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."
"There needs to be more documentation on the integration with different platforms."
"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."
"We would like the integration with third party applications to be improved within this solution."
"The tool needs to have direct integration with AvPro."
"A major issue with AWS as a whole is that it has a lot of services that do the same thing, and people get confused about which one to use in which scenario. Previously, we used to use SNS for connecting microservices. SNS has around six types of subscribers. We can subscribe to Lambda, HTTP, HTTPS, SMS, email, and push notifications. We used to use HTTP endpoints and Lambda for connecting to microservice systems. Now we have something called EventBridge, which actually does that for you. For connecting to services, we should just use EventBridge rather than SQS, SNS. I hear a lot of complaints from people wherein they do not understand when to use EventBridge and when to use SQS, SNS. They can remove these features so that it doesn't confuse users about when to use SQS, SNS, or EventBridge."
"We would like to have the option when someone leaves the organization or moves to another team, to remove notifications. Currently this needs to be done manually by the company admin."
"In terms of improvement, I would like to have better customer support for SNS. We can then manage it very easily."
"IBM MQ's pricing is higher than its competitors'."
"We would like to see the IBM technical support team extend their hand to providing support for other cloud vendors like Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS"
"You should be able to increase the message size. It should be dynamic. Each queue has a limitation of 5,000."
"The solution isn't free. There are other solutions, like RabbitMQ, which are open source and absolutely free to use. It's one reason we are moving away from IBM."
"The solution should offer a freeware version, free vouchers, or certifications for learning purposes and building knowledge base."
"I have used the support from IBM MQ. There is some room for improvement."
"Should have more integration in the monitoring tools."
"There could be a better front-end GUI interface for us, where we can see things more easily."
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 Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, VMware RabbitMQ, Red Hat AMQ and Amazon SQS. See our Amazon SNS vs. IBM MQ report.
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