Explain the features of Amazon MQ

In this recipe, we will learn about Amazon MQ. We will also learn about the features of Amazon MQ.

Recipe Objective - Explain the features of Amazon MQ?

The Amazon MQ is a widely used service and is defined as a fully managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes setting up and running message brokers on Amazon Web Services simple. By managing the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of message brokers for you, Amazon MQ reduces users operational responsibilities. Because Amazon MQ uses industry-standard APIs and protocols to connect to their existing applications, users can easily migrate to AWS without having to rewrite code. Amazon MQ manages the administration and maintenance of ActiveMQ as a managed service. This includes responsibility for broker provisioning, patching, high-availability failure detection and recovery, and message durability. Users get direct access to the ActiveMQ console as well as industry-standard messaging APIs and protocols, such as JMS, NMS, AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, and WebSocket, with Amazon MQ. This enables users to switch from any message broker that supports these standards to Amazon MQ–along with the supported applications–without having to rewrite any code. For development and testing, users can create a single-instance Amazon MQ broker, or an active/standby pair that spans AZs with quick, automatic failover. In either case, they get data replication across AZs as well as a pay-as-you-go broker instance and message storage model.

Benefits of Amazon MQ

  • Because Amazon MQ uses industry-standard APIs and protocols for messaging, such as JMS, NMS, AMQP 1.0 and 0-9-1, STOMP, MQTT, and WebSocket, connecting users existing applications to it is simple. By simply updating the endpoints of their applications to connect to Amazon MQ, users can migrate from any message broker that uses these standards to Amazon MQ and thus migrate it quickly. Amazon MQ takes care of message broker administration and maintenance, as well as provisioning infrastructure for high availability. There's no need to provision hardware or install and maintain software because Amazon MQ handles tasks like software upgrades, security updates, and failure detection and recovery automatically and thus it responsibilities of Offload operational. When users connect their message brokers to Amazon MQ, it is automatically provisioned for high availability and message durability. Amazon MQ replicates messages across multiple Availability Zones (AZ) within an AWS region, ensuring that messages are always available even if a component or AZ fails and thus it makes durable messaging easy.

System Requirements

  • Any Operating System(Mac, Windows, Linux)

This recipe explains Amazon MQ and features of Amazon MQ.

Features of Amazon MQ

    • It provides a managed service

Users can launch a production-ready message broker in minutes with Amazon MQ by using the AWS Management Console, AWS CloudFormation, the Command Line Interface (CLI), or simple API calls. Administrative tasks such as hardware provisioning, broker setup, software upgrades, and failure detection and recovery are all handled by Amazon MQ.

    • It offers security

Amazon MQ encrypts users messages both in transit and at rest. It's simple to keep users messages safe by storing them in an encrypted format. SSL is used to connect to the broker, and access can be limited to a private endpoint within your Amazon VPC, allowing users to isolate their broker within their own virtual network. Amazon MQ is integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), giving users control over which actions users IAM users and groups can perform on specific Amazon MQ brokers. Authentication from applications to the broker is done via username and password, with ActiveMQ brokers having the option of using LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).

    • It provides monitoring

AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch are both integrated with Amazon MQ. Users can use CloudWatch to keep track of metrics for their brokers, queues, and topics. Users can, for example, keep track of the depth of users queues and set alarms if messages don't get through. They can log, continuously monitor, and retain Amazon MQ API calls with CloudTrail.

    • It provides broker instance types

Amazon MQ currently offers seven different broker instance types: mq.t2.micro, mq.t3.micro, mq.m4.large, mq.m5.large, mq.m5.xlarge, mq.m5.2xlarge, and mq.m5.4xlarge. The mq.t3.micro and mq.m5.large instances are intended for initial product evaluation and default production use, respectively. Amazon MQ also offers single-instance brokers for evaluation and testing, as well as replicated highly available deployment modes for production.

    • It provides Pay-as-you-pricing

There is no minimum fee for Amazon MQ, which provides cost-effective and flexible capacity. Users are charged based on the number of hours their broker instance runs and the amount of storage they use on a monthly basis. For extra capacity, it's simple and inexpensive to create new brokers.

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