Amazon MQ versus Amazon EventBridge (formerly CloudWatch Events)
Learn how Amazon MQ differs from Amazon EventBridge (formerly CloudWatch Events).
| Amazon MQ | Amazon EventBridge (formerly CloudWatch Events) | |
|---|---|---|
| Scaling | 80 msg/sec; can be increased with a network of brokers |
not disclosed (default soft limit depends on region; e.g., 10,000 msg/sec in eu-west-1) |
| Max. message size | limited by disk space |
256 KB |
| Persistence | forever (up to 200 GB) |
archiving is possible |
| Replication | Multi-AZ (optional) |
Multi-AZ |
| Order guarantee | yes |
no |
| Delivery guarantee | exactly once; supports distributed (XA) transactions |
at least once |
| Pricing | per broker hour + used storage |
per message |
| Protocols | JMS, AMQP, MQTT, STOMP, OpenWire |
AWS Rest API |
| AWS Integrations | Lambda |
Lambda, SQS, SNS, and many more |
| License | open source (Apache ActiveMQ) |
AWS only |
| Encryption at rest | yes |
yes |
| Encryption in transit | yes |
yes |