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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 February 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Amazon EventBridge is 5.3%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM MQ is 17.0%, down from 29.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
IBM MQ17.0%
Amazon EventBridge5.3%
Other77.7%
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

"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."
"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."
"Amazon EventBridge is very flexible."
"IBM MQ's flexibility has sped up our active communication."
"The reliability of the queuing is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"It improves reliability and guarantees that messages are not lost."
"The most valuable feature of IBM MQ is it has all the features necessary for contemporary messaging, not only for the financial industry but for any application."
"The most valuable features are RDQM and queue sharing."
"IBM MQ processes many thousands of messages in a second, which is efficient for handling high transaction volumes."
"It runs everywhere, from the mainframe in the US to the PCs in the Gobi desert attached to an analog modem."
 

Cons

"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."
"It would be easy if we had an option to select multiple things to run the script from Monday to Friday."
"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."
"What could be improved is the high-availability. The way MQ works is that it separates the high-availability from the workload balance. The scalability should be easier. If something happens so that the messages are not available on each node, scalability is only possible for the workload balance."
"The response time for IBM MQ support could be better because when we are using IBM MQ and something goes wrong, support is required as the resource availability of the IBM product is very limited."
"Everything in the solution could be simplified a little. We have trouble with the configuration and cost which is mostly an internal issue, but nevertheless, the errors do come up when there are configuration changes across a specific version. We have slightly different versions, which may have slightly different configurations which cause issues."
"The integration capabilities could be even easier."
"The user interface should be enhanced to include more monitoring features and other metrics. The metrics should include not only those from the IBM MQ point of view but also CPU and memory utilization."
"If they could come up with monitoring dashboards that would be good. We are using external monitoring tools, apart from our IBM MQ, to monitor IBM MQ. If we could get monitoring tools or dashboards to keep everything simple for the user to understand, that would be good."
"It needs a User Interface which is better than the aging MQ Explorer. The existing solution MQ Explorer is outdated."
"IBM MQ's pricing is higher than its competitors'."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon EventBridge's pricing is pretty cheap."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"There is real money involved here. As compared to RabbitMQ, IBM MQ is on the higher side in terms of cost."
"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."
"IBM products, in general, have high licensing costs and support costs are too high."
"Licensing for this software is on a yearly basis. The standard fee includes the maintenance and updates that are released periodically."
"The price of the solution could be reduced, and we are on an annual subscription."
"IBM MQ is an expensive solution compared to other solutions. However, if you pay less you will not receive the same experience or features."
"IBM's licensing model seems more reasonable than some competitors. They charge based on usage, which is good."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Financial Services Firm
30%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
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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