Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Alternatives (January 2026)

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

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 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.

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

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

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.