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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

"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."
"It has self-explanatory documentation and works with most projects."
"The best feature is that it allows you to perform recurring tasks efficiently."
"We use our routing feature when the request is coming from the business application. The request goes to the distributive side and it is routed to the right claim instance."
"The product helps us monitor messages with other queues, view duplicated messages and control undelivered messages."
"I haven't seen any issues with respect to the message loss."
"We use queue managers/concentrators for message flow going upstream and downstream on applications with enterprise licenses."
"Clustering is one of its most valuable features."
"It also has a backup queue concept and topics, features that I have not seen anywhere else. I like these features very much."
"The most valuable feature is the Queue Manager, which lies in the middle between our application and our core banking server."
"We have implemented business to business transactions over MQ messaging. The guaranteed and once only delivery ensures business integrity."
 

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."
"It would be good if the solution provided a feature to add multiple Cron expressions in one rule."
"Amazon EventBridge doesn't have the feature of event replay."
"In terms of volume, it is not able to handle a huge volume. We also have limitations of queues related to IBM MQ. We often need to handle a very big volume, but currently we do have limitations. If those kinds of limitations could be relaxed, it would help us to work better."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"There are many complications with IBM MQ servers."
"The tool is expensive."
"The GUI part could be better."
"More documentation would be good because some features are not deeply implemented."
"The licensing fees should be more cost-effective so that we can better pitch the product to our clients. With the pricing as it is, they tend to move away from IBM products."
"IBM MQ is still in a premature state. It is in a research phase, so it is very early to make specific suggestions about improvements."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon EventBridge's pricing is pretty cheap."
"The price of the solution could be reduced, and we are on an annual subscription."
"IBM is expensive."
"IBM's licensing model seems more reasonable than some competitors. They charge based on usage, which is good."
"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."
"Licensing for this software is on a yearly basis. The standard fee includes the maintenance and updates that are released periodically."
"Use the new and lightweight version (Liberty) to lower licensing costs. It is also easier to upgrade/maintain."
"This solution requires a license and we have purchased an enterprise license."
"It's a very expensive product."
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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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