Amazon Kinesis Data Streams versus Amazon MQ

11 Dec 2024

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

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