Amazon MQ Cheat Sheet

• AWS offering for a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ. Message brokers allow different software systems–often using different programming languages, and on different platforms–to communicate and exchange information.
• Amazon MQ also supports RabbitMQ, a popular open-source message broker. Migrate your existing RabbitMQ message brokers to AWS without having to rewrite code.

Features

• • Amazon MQ uses industry-standard APIs and protocols for messaging, including Java Message Service (JMS), .NET Message Service (NMS), AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, OpenWire, and WebSocket.
  • Amazon MQ manages administrative tasks such as hardware provisioning, broker setup, software upgrades, and failure detection and recovery.
  • Amazon MQ stores your messages redundantly across multiple Availability Zones (AZs).
  • Amazon MQ supports both single-instance brokers, suitable for evaluation and testing, and active/standby brokers for high availability in production. In the event of a failure of the broker, or even a full AZ outage, Amazon MQ automatically fails over to the standby broker.
• ActiveMQ messaging features
  • ActiveMQ provides all the standard JMS features including:
    • point-to-point (message queues),
    • publish-subscribe (topics),
    • request/reply,
    • persistent and non-persistent modes,
    • JMS transactions,
    • and distributed (XA) transactions.
  • ActiveMQ also supports more complex patterns such as:
    • composite destinations (producers can send the same message to multiple destinations)
    • virtual destinations (publishers broadcast messages via a topic to a pool of receivers subscribing through queues)
  • ActiveMQ preserves the order of messages sent by a single producer to all consumers on a topic.
  • ActiveMQ supports message groups, which enable multiple consumers on a queue to process messages within a group in first-in, first-out (FIFO) order.
  • ActiveMQ also supports message redelivery and dead letter queues when a message cannot be delivered to its destination.

Amazon MQ Brokers

• • A message broker environment running on Amazon MQ. It is the basic building block of Amazon MQ.
  • Brokers created without public accessibility can’t be accessed from outside of your VPC.
  • Broker Types
    • A Single-instance broker is comprised of one broker in one Availability Zone. The broker communicates with your application and with an AWS storage location.

      

• • • An Active/standby broker for high availability is comprised of two brokers in two different Availability Zones, configured in a redundant pair. These brokers communicate synchronously with your application, and with a shared storage location.

• • Broker instance types
    • Mq.t2.micro
      • mq.t2.micro instances are designed for initial product evaluation
    • Mq.m4.large
    • Mq.m5.large
      • mq.m5.large instance for default production usage
    • Mq.m5.xlarge
    • Mq.m5.2xlarge
    • Mq.m5.4xlarge
  • A network of brokers is comprised of multiple simultaneously active single-instance brokers or active/standby brokers. You can configure networks of brokers in a variety of topologies (for example, concentrator, hub-and-spokes, tree, or mesh).

Configuration

• • A configuration contains all of the settings for your ActiveMQ broker, in XML format.
  • Making changes to a configuration does NOT apply the changes to the broker immediately. To apply your changes, you must wait for the next maintenance window or reboot the broker.

Security and Monitoring

• • Amazon MQ provides encryption of your messages at rest and in transit.
  • Connections to the broker use SSL, and access can be restricted to a private endpoint within your Amazon VPC.
  • Authentication from applications to the ActiveMQ broker itself is provided using username and password-based authentication.
  • Amazon MQ supports LDAP authentication and authorization with directory services like Microsoft Active Directory.
  • Amazon MQ is HIPAA eligible and meets standards for PCI, SOC, and ISO compliance.
  • You can configure Amazon MQ to publish general and audit logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

Amazon MQ Pricing

• • You pay for the time your message broker instance runs (price varies depending on the size of the instance used), the storage you use monthly, and standard data transfer fees.

• IBM MQ

  • IBM MQ is messaging middleware that simplifies and accelerates the integration of diverse applications and business data across multiple platforms.
  • It uses message queues to facilitate the exchange of information.
• Features
• • • It offers a single messaging solution for cloud, mobile, IoT, and on-premises environments.
    • The IBM MQ service on AWS supports client messaging applications from
      • within your virtual private cloud (VPC),
      • from trusted addresses on the internet,
      • and via a VPN from your on-premises environment.
    • Secure message delivery with end-to-end encryption.
    • Dynamic scaling via auto scaling groups since IBM MQ runs on an EC2 instance running on a pre-built AMI.
  • The IBM MQ server is typically placed in a private subnet, spanning across two availability zones for high availability. The only ways to access it are through two ports exposed by a public facing elastic load balancer (ELB) or, if you need to SSH to the host, via a Bastion server from the public subnet.
  • All the queue manager data is stored on Amazon EFS.

Amazon MQ Cheat Sheet References:

https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/features/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/welcome.html
https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/pricing/
https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/faqs/
https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/ibm-mq/
https://aws-quickstart.s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-ibm-mq/doc/ibm-mq-on-the-aws-cloud.pdf