Amazon MSK versus Amazon MQ

27 Mar 2024

Learn how Amazon MSK differs from Amazon MQ.

Amazon MSK Amazon MQ
Scaling

30 brokers per cluster; you need add/remove brokers and reassign partitions manually

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

Max. message size

configurable (default 1 MB)

limited by disk space

Persistence

forever (up to 16384 GiB per broker)

forever (up to 200 GB)

Replication

Multi-AZ (optional)

Multi-AZ (optional)

Order guarantee

within a partition

yes

Delivery guarantee

up to the consumer

exactly once; supports distributed (XA) transactions

Pricing

per broker hour + provisioned storage

per broker hour + used storage

Protocols

Kafka protocol

JMS, AMQP, MQTT, STOMP, OpenWire

AWS Integrations

Lambda

Lambda

License

open source (Apache Kafka)

open source (Apache ActiveMQ)

Encryption at rest

yes

yes

Encryption in transit

yes

yes