Amazon MQ Alternatives (January 2026)

Amazon SQS fully managed message queuing makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed, secure, and highly available Apache Kafka service that makes it easy to ingest and process streaming data in real time at a low cost.

Amazon SNS is a managed messaging service for communication, allowing messaging between decoupled microservices applications or directly to users with SMS texts, mobile push, and email.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed, open-source cloud database service that allows you to easily operate and scale your relational database of choice, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL.

AWS App Mesh is an application networking service mesh that lets you more easily monitor and control communications across services.

IBM MQ is a family of middleware products for point-to-point and publish-subscribe messaging. MQ is available as as SaaS on IBM Cloud, as a hardware appliance, and for self-hosting, including on z/OS.

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.

Kubernetes message broker and message queue platform. An open-source project providing the most efficient way to connect microservices.