Amazon SNS Standard versus Amazon MQ

27 Mar 2024

Learn how Amazon SNS Standard differs from Amazon MQ.

Amazon SNS Standard Amazon MQ
Scaling

not disclosed (default soft limit depends on region; e.g., 9000 msg/sec in eu-west-1)

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

Max. message size

256 KB

limited by disk space

Persistence

no

forever (up to 200 GB)

Replication

Multi-AZ

Multi-AZ (optional)

Order guarantee

no

yes

Delivery guarantee

at least once

exactly once; supports distributed (XA) transactions

Pricing

per message

per broker hour + used storage

Protocols

AWS Rest API

JMS, AMQP, MQTT, STOMP, OpenWire

AWS Integrations

Lambda, SQS, webhook

Lambda

License

AWS only

open source (Apache ActiveMQ)

Encryption at rest

yes

yes

Encryption in transit

yes

yes