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Amazon SNS vs TIBCO Enterprise Message Service 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 SNS
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
5th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TIBCO Enterprise Message Se...
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Business Activity Monitoring (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Amazon SNS is 4.9%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is 10.4%, up from 10.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
TIBCO Enterprise Message Service10.4%
Amazon SNS4.9%
Other84.7%
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
 

Featured Reviews

HarshalJethwa - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Event-driven messaging has improved real-time notifications and incident response
In my experience, the best features Amazon SNS offers include the ability to create an event-driven architecture and services, as well as real-time notifications.When I mention real-time capabilities and integration with other AWS services, specific integrations or real-time features that stand out most to me are S3 bucket events including creating a bucket, creating an object, updating an object, modifying an object, and deleting an object. Additionally, with CloudWatch alarms, when I get an alarm on CloudWatch, it will notify me via email using Amazon SNS. The same applies to application events. Amazon SNS has impacted my organization positively because using it, we are able to create an event-driven architecture and send notifications for events or incidents. Amazon SNS has helped my team respond faster, improved reliability, and saved time. Specifically, because of it, we are able to identify events as soon as possible. It saves our time and we can also process them as soon as possible.
Ray Ochieng - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Lead at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
A value-for-money solution with the requisite features to facilitate efficient communication within an organization
We have been struggling with the stability of TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS), but now I don't know how to differentiate whether the issues are caused by the infrastructure or the product itself. So, I am hesitant to provide a rating because I suspect that it might be due to my setup or environment. I really don't know how to evaluate the product independently. We have faced challenges with EMS, but I am unsure if it is related to infrastructure or the product itself. Even if I reach out for support, I am uncertain if the issue will be resolved since it could be partly related to the product. It's a tough situation.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Amazon SNS has SMS notifications as well. Most of the other solutions have only email notifications."
"We use this solution because 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."
"It's a simple communication service that allows us to communicate with customers."
"Messages easily flow from publisher or application to subscriber."
"Amazon SNS has helped my team respond faster, improved reliability, and saved time."
"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 initial setup of Amazon SNS was easy."
"It allows us to achieve synchronous as well as asynchronous communication with the added advantage of making the communication reliable."
"The Enterprise Messaging Server will store the message and wait for other subscribers to come onto the network."
"​The initial setup is straightforward and the product documentation is very good.​"
"TIBCO Enterprise Message Service's most valuable features are rapid zero-code integration and its large number of adapters and plugins."
"The setup was done by TIBCO. It has been stable and has a server."
"It's a very secure and useful product wherein most of our clients are using this messaging product."
"I like TIBCO's ability to create versioned queues and persistent messages."
"It allows us to achieve synchronous as well as asynchronous communication with the added advantage of making the communication reliable."
 

Cons

"In terms of improvement, I would like to have better customer support for SNS. We can then manage it very easily."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, I would like to have better customer support for SNS."
"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."
"The tool needs to have direct integration with AvPro."
"There needs to be more documentation on the integration with different platforms."
"I believe Amazon SNS could be improved because when you integrate it, you also need SQS, so it is a two-service job."
"There needs to be more documentation on the integration with different platforms."
"An area for improvement would be integration with the API layer."
"An area for improvement would be integration with the API layer."
"I would like to see better integration with Java and Apache Kafka."
"It can be improved in the sense that in the market we can see the cloud is coming, but this is not cloud compatible."
"Since all the communications goes through this product, it acts as a single point of failure."
"Overall, my experience with the support team has been disappointing."
"TIBCO also has its proprietary line of cloud-based applications, but specifically, these two products are not cloud compatible."
"​Since all the communications goes through this product, it acts as a single point of failure."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Their pricing is competitive. I would rate the cost four out of five."
"The pricing is very cheap."
"Amazon SNS is cheap and I would rate it a three out of ten. The pricing is usage-based."
"The solution has no up-front costs because you pay based on the number of messages you publish."
"One can use the tool for free."
"It is the cheapest solution in the market. It is on a monthly basis. After a month, you are build based on your usage. There are no additional costs to the standard licensing fees."
"The pricing of push notifications and everything is quite fair. If you are using FCM under the hood, it is completely free. When you are using push notification on SMS, it is just a nominal price that you need to pay. SMS services are a lot more costly. It is because we don't have proper providers in India. That's why it gets a lot more costly in terms of SMS. This is the reason why we don't use SMS services from SNS itself. We use other third-party services like SMS Horizon. We use a third-party service for email services. It is almost free. It is just around $1 a month. Configuring Lambda is also quite cheap. You only pay for the Lambda usage. You don't pay for SNS itself."
"In our case, we didn't pay for each product separately. We simply paid for all those companies that provided the components."
"​The cost of licensing is very high. One should go for the product only if they need to ensure message reliability and they cannot afford to lose messages.​"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
32%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
7%
Government
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
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Also Known As

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Enterprise Message Service
 

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Sample Customers

PlayOn! Sports, NASA, Change Healthcare, FCBarcelona
BNL, SunGard, TUI Group, UTi Worldwide, Yellow Pages Group
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