Amazon MQ versus AWS IoT Core

09 Oct 2024

Learn how Amazon MQ differs from AWS IoT Core.

Amazon MQ AWS IoT Core
Scaling

80 msg/sec; can be increased with a network of brokers

not disclosed

Max. message size

limited by disk space

128 KB

Persistence

forever (up to 200 GB)

up to 1 hour

Replication

Multi-AZ (optional)

Multi-AZ

Order guarantee

yes

no

Delivery guarantee

exactly once; supports distributed (XA) transactions

at least once / at most once

Pricing

per broker hour + used storage

per message + connection duration

Protocols

JMS, AMQP, MQTT, STOMP, OpenWire

MQTT, AWS Rest API

AWS Integrations

Lambda

Lambda, SQS, SNS, and many more

License

open source (Apache ActiveMQ)

AWS only

Encryption at rest

yes

no

Encryption in transit

yes

yes