Amazon SQS vs Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Red Hat are both solutions in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.0, while Red Hat is ranked #13. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 7.8% mindshare in MQ, compared to Red Hat’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

Amazon SQS

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93% willing to recommend

Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Amazon SQS and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon SQS

Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software

3rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS

Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of Amazon SQS is 7.8%, down from 9.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Message Queue (MQ) Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Amazon SQS	7.8%
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS	0.6%
Other	91.6%

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Featured Reviews

Hari Prakash Pokala

Senior Java Engineer at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Valuable AWS services enhance data analysis yet could benefit from flexible data streams

I am using multiple services such as AWS Lambda, S3, EC2, ECS, and the SNS SQS services, along with QuickSight reports and some of the VPC concepts. We have an email notification system integrated with Spring Branch. Once a batch job completes, SNS and SQS trigger events, sending notification…

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Akran Ruiz

System Administrator at BH Bank

It's scalable and easy to use, and we have local support here in Tunisia

We have an application-presentation layer, and we use JBoss to communicate with the application layer. The interceptors use Active MQ. JBoss is easy to use, and we have a good partner here in Tunisia to provide local support. JBoss could add more automation. We have been using JBoss for five…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We use SNS as the publisher, and our procurement service subscribes to those events using SQS. In the past, we relied on time-based or batch-based processes to send data between services on-premises. With SQS, we can trigger actions based on real-time changes in business processes, improving reliability."

"If we compare with other solutions such as RabbitMQ for messaging, Amazon SQS is easier to use and easier to create the queue."

"The dead-letter queue is very helpful in maintaining the messages that come into the queue."

"We use Amazon SQS for notifying, queuing servers, queuing messages, and notifying the people for alerting systems."

"Amazon SQS provides faster search through indexing via OpenSearch."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon SQS is its scalability."

"One of the most valuable features of Amazon SQS is its event-driven invocation."

"I think the tool is very reliable."

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"JBoss is easy to use, and we have a good partner here in Tunisia to provide local support."

Cons

"The tool needs improvement in user-friendliness and discoverability."

"It would be easier to have a dashboard that allows us to see everything and manage everything since we have so many queues."

"A primary area of improvement for Amazon SQS is the message size limitation, which is currently restricted to 256 kilobytes per message."

"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."

"I do not think that this solution is easy to use and the documentation of this solution has a lot of problems and can be improved in the next release. Most of the time, the images in the document are from older versions."

"Sending or receiving messages takes some time, and it could be quicker."

"Sometimes, we have to switch to another component similar to SQS because the patching tool for SQS is relatively slow for us."

"There are some issues with SQS's transaction queue regarding knowing if something has been received."

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"JBoss could add more automation."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon SQS is more affordable compared to other solutions."

"The pricing of Amazon SQS is reasonable. The first million requests are free every month, and after, it's cost 40 cents for every million requests. There are not any additional fees."

"The pricing model is pay-as-you-use. It depends on your usage and configuration."

"Compared to EC2 and other services, Amazon SQS' pricing is cheaper."

"It's quite expensive."

"Amazon SQS offers a generous free tier, beyond which it remains very cost-effective. The cost per million messages is less than a dollar, making it an economical choice."

"Amazon SQS is moderately priced."

"Compared to the other options and based on what I have heard, Amazon SQS is relatively more expensive, but it is not insanely expensive."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

15%

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Small Business

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Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	14

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon SQS?

It is stable and scalable.

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What needs improvement with Amazon SQS?

The retention period for messages could be improved. Currently, messages are retained for four or seven days. It would be beneficial if there was a provision to configure and retain messages for lo...

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What is your primary use case for Amazon SQS?

I primarily use Amazon SQS ( /products/amazon-sqs-reviews ) for asynchronous messaging. It is part of our distributed system design, where we use it for asynchronous communication by posting a mess...

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Overview

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. SQS eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with managing and operating message oriented middleware, and empowers developers to focus on differentiating work. Using SQS, you can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available. Get started with SQS in minutes using the AWS console, Command Line Interface or SDK of your choice, and three simple commands.

SQS offers two types of message queues. Standard queues offer maximum throughput, best-effort ordering, and at-least-once delivery. SQS FIFO queues are designed to guarantee that messages are processed exactly once, in the exact order that they are sent.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

To respond to business demands quickly and efficiently, you need a way to integrate the applications and data spread across your enterprise. Red Hat JBoss A-MQ—based on the Apache ActiveMQ open source project—is a flexible, high-performance messaging platform that delivers information reliably, enabling real-time integration and connecting the Internet of Things (IoT).

Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS extends the capabilities to our Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution, Red Hat OpenShift, for messaging services in the cloud.

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