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Amazon EventBridge vs IBM MQ comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon EventBridge
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
5th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM MQ
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
174
Ranking in other categories
Business Activity Monitoring (1st), Message Queue (MQ) Software (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Amazon EventBridge is 5.2%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM MQ is 18.5%, down from 28.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
IBM MQ18.5%
Amazon EventBridge5.2%
Other76.3%
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
 

Featured Reviews

Shrihari Haridas - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Burns & McDonnell
Enables triggering of automatic processes with customizable timing
Amazon EventBridge allows for customization at my level, providing many options for determining which services are dependent, what account to use, and when the Lambda will trigger. It is crucial if I need to trigger a Lambda with scheduling a cron job or setting a timing. With EventBridge, I can run automatic Lambda at a particular time in a day or an hour.
MK
SWIFT manager at Raiffeisen Bank Aval
Reliable payment processing is achieved with minimal disruption
Currently, we have some disadvantages; it's a bit difficult to use IBM ID to access support from the IBM site. To get nice support from IBM, we need to use IBM ID, and it's a bit complicated to integrate it with IBM support. Support can be better because sometimes we need explanations for some behaviors of the product, and it's not easy to reach the proper person in IBM support. They could add some new features into IBM MQ to make it better. A graphical user interface in addition to MQ Explorer could be useful, but we are satisfied with MQ Explorer as well.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Amazon EventBridge is very flexible."
"Amazon EventBridge allows for customization at my level, providing many options for determining which services are dependent, what account to use, and when the Lambda will trigger."
"It's very simple to set up our cron with Amazon EventBridge."
"The best feature is that it allows you to perform recurring tasks efficiently."
"It has self-explanatory documentation and works with most projects."
"It is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"IBM HQ's stability is great - we send six million messages a day, and we're very satisfied with HQ's ability to handle that volume."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"Overall the solution operates well and has good integration."
"The methodology and the way in which the platform has been produced as a standard is most valuable. There are so many different versions of it now, but the actual basic functionality and the simplicity of it have made it far easier to be implemented in so many different instances. When I worked with the OS/2 or PS/2 machine environment, the messaging mechanisms were based upon IBM MQ. It is so versatile, which is the main reason that I'm a fan of it."
"Data integrity, reliability and security are valuable features that IBM MQ possesses."
"IBM MQ is the right choice because of the stability and the performance. And from the support perspective, it's enough to have a really small team."
"Whenever payments are happening, such as incoming payments to the bank, we need to notify the customer. With MQ we can actually do that asynchronously. We don't want to notify the customer for each and every payment but, rather, more like once a day. That kind of thing can be enabled with the help of MQ."
 

Cons

"Amazon EventBridge doesn't have the feature of event replay."
"It would be good if the solution provided a feature to add multiple Cron expressions in one rule."
"It would be easy if we had an option to select multiple things to run the script from Monday to Friday."
"Currently, it only supports triggering one job at a time. It would be helpful if it could handle multiple jobs or triggers simultaneously. What I mean is that currently, we can only perform one job at a time."
"They could integrate monitoring into the solution, a bit more than they do now. Currently, they have opened the REST API so you can get statistic and accounting information and details from MQ and build your own monitoring, if you want. IBM can improve the solution in this direction."
"It is expensive. The cost is high. There should be more improvement in the new age of technologies."
"Presenting and maybe having some different options for different user experiences based on the administrative duties that you have to do as an app manager or configure the server or security would be an improvement."
"The solution should offer a freeware version, free vouchers, or certifications for learning purposes and building knowledge base."
"It could get a face lift with a modern marketing campaign."
"I don’t like legacy view of MQ."
"I have used the support from IBM MQ. There is some room for improvement."
"I couldn't find a lot of information on the system API side."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon EventBridge's pricing is pretty cheap."
"You have to license per application installation and if you expand vertically or horizontally, you will be paying for more licenses. The licenses are approximately $10,000 to $15,000 a license, it can get expensive quite quickly."
"Use the new and lightweight version (Liberty) to lower licensing costs. It is also easier to upgrade/maintain."
"It is a licensed product. As compared to an open-source solution, such as RabbitMQ, it is obviously costly. If you're using IBM Message Broker, which is a licensed product, IBM MQ is included in the same license. You don't have to pay separately for IBM MQ. The license cost of IBM MQ is lesser than IBM Message Broker."
"There is a different platform price between Windows, z/OS, and iSeries."
"Small-scale companies may not want to buy IBM MQ because of its high cost."
"The fee for this solution is on the higher end of the scale."
"I think the pricing is reasonable, especially with IIB as a part of it."
"Most of our customers are quite happy with the solution but they have an issue with the cost. They want to move to cheaper solutions."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
32%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise18
Large Enterprise147
 

Questions from the Community

What advice do you have for others considering Amazon EventBridge?
On a scale from one to ten, I would give EventBridge an overall score of nine.
What is your primary use case for Amazon EventBridge?
I use Amazon EventBridge for triggering the Lambda for certain events. It is also used to notify on Slack if there is any image push on the ECR repository.
What is MQ software?
Hi As someone with 45+ years of experience in the Transaction and Message Processing world, I have seen many "MQ" solutions that have come into the market place. From my perspective, while each pro...
What are the differences between Apache Kafka and IBM MQ?
Apache Kafka is open source and can be used for free. It has very good log management and has a way to store the data used for analytics. Apache Kafka is very good if you have a high number of user...
How does IBM MQ compare with VMware RabbitMQ?
IBM MQ has a great reputation behind it, and this solution is very robust with great stability. It is easy to use, simple to configure and integrates well with our enterprise ecosystem and protocol...
 

Also Known As

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WebSphere MQ
 

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Sample Customers

Hess, Expedia, Kelloggs, Philips, HyperTrack
Deutsche Bahn, Bon-Ton, WestJet, ARBURG, Northern Territory Government, Tata Steel Europe, Sharp Corporation
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