Amazon Kinesis Data Streams versus Amazon MQ
Learn how Amazon Kinesis Data Streams differs from Amazon MQ.
| Amazon Kinesis Data Streams | Amazon MQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Scaling | 1 MB or 1000 msg/sec per shard; up to 500 shards; you need to manually add/remove shards | 80 msg/sec; can be increased with a network of brokers |
| Max. message size | 1 MB | limited by disk space |
| Persistence | up to 365 days | forever (up to 200 GB) |
| Replication | Multi-AZ | Multi-AZ (optional) |
| Order guarantee | within a shard | yes |
| Delivery guarantee | at least once | exactly once; supports distributed (XA) transactions |
| Pricing | per shard hour | per broker hour + used storage |
| Protocols | AWS Rest API | JMS, AMQP, MQTT, STOMP, OpenWire |
| AWS Integrations | Lambda | Lambda |
| License | AWS only | open source (Apache ActiveMQ) |
| Encryption at rest | yes | yes |
| Encryption in transit | yes | yes |
Further reading
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