intermediate~3h

Amazon MQ & MSK: Managed Message Brokers

The managed-broker alternative to SQS/SNS — Amazon MQ for lift-and-shift of existing ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ workloads, and MSK for fully-managed Apache Kafka.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain why Amazon MQ exists given that SQS/SNS already cover queuing and pub/sub
  • Describe what MSK manages versus what a self-hosted Kafka cluster requires you to manage yourself
  • Distinguish when to reach for MSK over SQS/Kinesis for a streaming use case
  • Understand MSK Serverless as the lower-operational-overhead alternative to provisioned MSK

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sqs-messagingsns-eventbridgekinesis-streaming