Amazon SNS Standard versus Amazon MQ

11 Dec 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

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