Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Alternatives (September 2025)

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 MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that simplifies setup and operation of open-source message brokers on AWS.

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 Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service provider that allows developers to send email from within any application.

Amazon API Gateway helps you build HTTP, REST, and WebSocket APIs with a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, manage, monitor, and secure APIs.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) provides a fully managed container service solution that’s easy to use, scalable, secure, and reliable.

Amazon GameSparks is a fully managed game backend service that manages and scales your cloud infrastructure.

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

DevOps serverless application tools to run background tasks with Docker containers and manage messaging queues with cloud elasticity and no vendor lock-in

Use Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) to build with Scalable Blockchain Network at scale without any specialized infrastructure investment.

Amazon SWF is a cloud process flow management application that gives developers tools to coordinate applications across multiple machines.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed, serverless data streaming service that stores and ingests various streaming data in real time at any scale.

Amazon SimpleDB is a simple database storage solution that allows developers to simply store & query data items via web services requests, saving time.

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure

AWS Step Functions lets you orchestrate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows so that you can build and update applications quickly.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that helps you distribute your static and dynamic content quickly and reliably with high speed performance, security, and developer ease-of-use.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable fully managed elastic NFS file system for AWS compute instances.

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that ingests data from your own apps, SaaS apps, and AWS services and routes that data to targets.

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

Fully managed Windows file system for business applications.

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a unified tool to manage your AWS services directly from the command line.

AWS App Runner helps you deploy and scale from your source code or container image to a secure web application on AWS.

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, serverless time series database service for Internet of Things (IoT) and operational applications that helps you store and analyze time series data.

AWS Batch allows developers, scientists, and engineers to efficiently process hundreds of thousands of batch and machine learning computing jobs on AWS.

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.

Amazon Neptune is a fast, fully managed database service powering graph use cases such as identity graphs, knowledge graphs, and fraud detection.

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

Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.

Amazon Pinpoint is a flexible, scalable marketing communications service that connects you with customers over email, SMS, push notifications, or voice.

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, integrate, and modernize the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process.

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service for running code without having to provision or manage servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.

Introducing AWS Transfer for SFTP, a fully managed SFTP service for Amazon S3. AWS Transfer for SFTP enables you to easily move your file transfer workloads that use the Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to AWS without needing to modify your applications or manage any SFTP servers.

Learn more about Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra compatible database service.

The broadest selection of relational and NoSQL purpose-built databases, fully managed, high performance, and ready to scale.

AWS Transfer Family enables fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS and FTP to move large amounts of data into AWS.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy to store, share, and deploy container images.

Collect streaming data, create a real-time data pipeline, and analyze real-time video and data streams, log analytics, event analytics, and IoT analytics.

A fully-managed, cloud-native directory from Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS CodeCommit is a managed source control repository that makes it easier for teams to securely collaborate on code with contributions encrypted in transit and at rest.

Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, and highly available document database that is MongoDB compatible.

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.

Implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) that scales to millions of users with Amazon Cognito, fully managed authentication service.

Unlock fast and scalable search, monitoring, and analysis for log analytics and website search by deploying and running OpenSearch and ALv2 Elasticsearch.

AWS IoT Core enables secure two-way communication between internet-connected devices and AWS services with device gateway and device SDK capabilities.

Build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models for any use case with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows.

Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you can do to improve it.

Amazon MemoryDB is a Redis OSS-compatible, durable, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance.

Amazon Lex is a fully managed AI service for building conversational interfaces into any application. Start creating a chatbot, voice assistant, machine learning-powered IVR, or virtual agent today.

Amazon AppFlow is an integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between SaaS applications and AWS services without code.

AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, avoid downtime during application deployment, and handle the complexity of updating your applications.

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

Discover, deploy, and publish serverless applications for common use cases including Alexa Skills, chatbots, IoT, web and mobile back-ends, data processing, and more.

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence (BI) with native machine learning (ML) integrations and usage-based pricing, allowing insights for all users.

Fully managed Lustre file system integrated with S3 for workloads that require fast access to compute and high throughput such as high performance computing (HPC), media rendering, and machine learning (ML) training data sets.

Build and test code with automatic scaling, and pay only for the build minutes you use.

Build your AWS Cloud Skills with AWS Training and Certification. Learn AWS online with free digital training, in-person classroom training, virtual classroom training, and private on-site and virtual training. Learn more!

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service that provides a simplified and flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud domain name system (DNS) service. Enables to customize DNS routing policies to reduce latency.

Accelerate application development with 100% serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs. Get 250,000 API requests free per month for 12 months.

The easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models.

Get started today with Azure Premium Storage for low latency and high throughput storage suitable for I/O intensive applications.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and packaging service that securely and reliably delivers streaming content at scale.

Learn how customers run Kubernetes on Amazon EKS with detailed case studies and videos.

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), IT managers, and product owners.

AWS Transit Gateway connects virtual private cloud and on-premises networks through a central hub. It acts as a highly scalable cloud router so you can easily add to your network.

AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that make it possible to run low latency applications closer to end users or on-premises installations in a specific geography.

Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers simple management of cloud resources such as containers, at low, predictable prices.

Learn how AWS Key Management Service (KMS) provides you with logs of key usage to help you meet your regulatory and compliance needs.

Amazon GameLift provides reliable and scalable game server hosting to easily deploy and manage game servers while focusing on creating engaging gameplay.

Ingest events into Pub/Sub to stream to BigQuery, data lakes and databases; messaging middleware for streaming analytics and service integrations

Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a highly resilient, secure cloud service that provides database discovery, schema conversion, data migration, and ongoing replication to and from a wide range of databases and analytics systems.

AWS IoT SiteWise makes it easy to collect, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance cloud Storage Area Network (SAN).

AWS CodePipeline automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process each time a code change occurs.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech to text capability to their applications

AWS Secrets Manager allows you to rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets through their lifecycle.

AWS IoT Analytics makes it simple to run and operationalize analytics on massive volumes of IoT data, without the cost and complexity of building an IoT analytics platform.

Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase model.

AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service that links your network directly to AWS to deliver consistent, low-latency performance.

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that monitors for malicious activity and anomalous behavior to protect AWS accounts, workloads, and data.

AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.

AWS Systems Manager is a secure end-to-end management solution for resources on AWS and in multicloud and hybrid environments.

AWS IoT lets you securely connect and manage devices, collect and analyze device data, and build and deploy solutions that drive greater business value.

Use AWS Certificate Manager to provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and internal connected resources.

AWS IoT Device Management allows you to securely onboard, organize, monitor, and remotely manage IoT devices at scale.

Long-term, secure, durable Amazon S3 object storage classes for data archiving, starting at $1 per terabyte per month.

AWS Shield is a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a service that lets you launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that you define.

EMQX: The most scalable MQTT Broker for IoT. Connect 100M+ IoT devices in 1 cluster at 1ms latency. Move and process millions of MQTT messages per second.

Connect Active Directory to AWS resources or set up a new directory on AWS for your directory-aware workloads.

AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a high-quality live video transport service that delivers video more efficiently than satellite or fiber-optic connections.

AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure as code (IaC) service that allows you to easily model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and define how to scale Amazon EC2 capacity to meet the demands of your application.

Managed RabbitMQ servers hosted in the cloud. Decouple your applications with the speed of CloudAMQP, a highly available message queuing service.

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones (AZs).

AWS Clean Rooms helps companies and their partners more securely analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets without sharing or copying one another’s underlying data.

NOTE: In mid-2019 we re-launched and intensified our efforts, deprecating and archiving the old code base of the AWS Service Operator and changing to a community-driven approach. We’re currently in the design phase and invite you to comment on the design issues and become a contributor to the new project, see details at the new GitHub […]

AWS VPN establishes encrypted connections for hybrid connectivity networks with AWS Site-to-Site VPN and remote workforce access with AWS Client VPN.