Amazon SNS vs IBM MQ comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM are both solutions in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #5 with an average rating of 9.0, while IBM is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 9.3% mindshare in MOM, compared to IBM’s 26.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Amazon SNS

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100% willing to recommend

IBM MQ

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1,442 Comparison Views

94% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon SNS and IBM MQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Amazon SNS vs. IBM MQ Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon SNS

Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

5th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

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

162

Ranking in other categories

Business Activity Monitoring (1st), Message Queue (MQ) Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Amazon SNS is 9.3%, up from 7.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM MQ is 26.8%, up from 27.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

Featured Reviews

Bireshwar Adhikary

Senior Consultant at ATOS

The best service available with easy message flow and a pay-as-you-go model

Messages easily flow from publisher or application to subscriber. You can also flow messages from publisher to SNS with an https-like mediator. Amazon SQS is there, so message queue services are also there. The message transports to the service provider such as Redshift, the SQ bucket, Teams, Splunk, or any other message service. The solution has no up-front costs. Messages flow much more quickly than in the past. They used to run a bit late after being published.

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SelvaKumar4

System Analyst at Walmart

Offers the ability to batch metadata transfers between systems that support MQ as the communication method

We find it scalable for internal applications, but not so much for external integrations. It should support a wider range of protocols, not just a few specific ones. Many other products have broader protocol support, and IBM MQ is lagging in that area. IBM MQ needs to improve the UI for quicker logging. Users should also have a lot more control over logging, with a dashboard-like interface. That's something they should definitely work on.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Amazon SNS has SMS notifications as well. Most of the other solutions have only email notifications."

"Stability has been good for us. It is quite high."

"We have found the key feature of this solution to be the simplicity of sending out notifications."

"It's a simple communication service that allows us to communicate with customers."

"The initial setup of Amazon SNS was easy."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon SNS is speed. It's really fast."

"Messages easily flow from publisher or application to subscriber."

"The best aspect of this solution is its simplicity. We just have to create topics and can have as many subscriptions as we want under any topic we create."

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"This initial setup is not complex at all. Deploying it was very easy."

"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."

"This product has good security."

"This solution has improved and influenced the communication between different applications, then standardized that communication."

"There are a lot of extensible options for security, i.e., various things you can do. It's pretty easy to navigate."

"The most valuable feature is the stability. It's perfect in this way."

"We have implemented business to business transactions over MQ messaging. The guaranteed and once only delivery ensures business integrity."

"The solution is very easy to work with."

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Cons

"Messages should flow through a gateway without the need for a mediator."

"In terms of improvement, I would like to have better customer support for SNS. We can then manage it very easily."

"I expect Amazon SNS to provide some capabilities to allow the configuration process to be done in a single script."

"There could be more integration with other solutions."

"A major issue with AWS as a whole is that it has a lot of services that do the same thing, and people get confused about which one to use in which scenario. Previously, we used to use SNS for connecting microservices. SNS has around six types of subscribers. We can subscribe to Lambda, HTTP, HTTPS, SMS, email, and push notifications. We used to use HTTP endpoints and Lambda for connecting to microservice systems. Now we have something called EventBridge, which actually does that for you. For connecting to services, we should just use EventBridge rather than SQS, SNS. I hear a lot of complaints from people wherein they do not understand when to use EventBridge and when to use SQS, SNS. They can remove these features so that it doesn't confuse users about when to use SQS, SNS, or EventBridge."

"The tool needs to have direct integration with AvPro."

"There needs to be more documentation on the integration with different platforms."

"We would like the integration with third party applications to be improved within this solution."

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"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."

"The solution requires a lot of work to implement and maintain."

"In the next release, I would like for there to be easier monitoring. The UI should be easier for non-technical users to set up appliances and servers."

"The issue is that they're using a very old clustering model."

"There could be a better front-end GUI interface for us, where we can see things more easily."

"SonicMQ CAA (continuous availability architecture) functionality on auto failover and data persistence should be made available without a shared drive, as it exists in multi-instance queue managers."

"While there is support for API, it's not like the modern API capabilities."

"There are many complications with IBM MQ servers."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing of push notifications and everything is quite fair. If you are using FCM under the hood, it is completely free. When you are using push notification on SMS, it is just a nominal price that you need to pay. SMS services are a lot more costly. It is because we don't have proper providers in India. That's why it gets a lot more costly in terms of SMS. This is the reason why we don't use SMS services from SNS itself. We use other third-party services like SMS Horizon. We use a third-party service for email services. It is almost free. It is just around $1 a month. Configuring Lambda is also quite cheap. You only pay for the Lambda usage. You don't pay for SNS itself."

"The solution has no up-front costs because you pay based on the number of messages you publish."

"It is the cheapest solution in the market. It is on a monthly basis. After a month, you are build based on your usage. There are no additional costs to the standard licensing fees."

"Their pricing is competitive. I would rate the cost four out of five."

"One can use the tool for free."

"The pricing is very cheap."

"Amazon SNS is cheap and I would rate it a three out of ten. The pricing is usage-based."

"IBM MQ appliance has pricing options, but they are costly."

"Licensing for this software is on a yearly basis. The standard fee includes the maintenance and updates that are released periodically."

"The price of IBM MQ could improve by being less expensive."

"Our costs haven't increased but they also have not improved."

"We have a special contract with IBM MQ that give us a certain price."

"To implement such an IBM solution, a company has to pay a lot in term of licensing and consultancy. A pricing model might be a better option."

"The license for IBM MQ is commercial and not cheap. You get a multi-platform solution, which is important because it lets you connect systems on mainframes, personal solutions, Unix, Linux, etc."

"It's a very expensive product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Financial Services Firm

38%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon SNS?

The most valuable feature of Amazon SNS is speed. It's really fast.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon SNS?

The pricing is very cheap.

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What needs improvement with Amazon SNS?

In future releases, I want to see if the platforms that SMS can reach. It would be a good way to improve it. More platforms to be able to use it.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Overview

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a highly available, durable, secure, fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables you to decouple microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Amazon SNS provides topics for high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging. Using Amazon SNS topics, your publisher systems can fan out messages to a large number of subscriber endpoints for parallel processing, including Amazon SQS queues, AWS Lambda functions, and HTTP/S webhooks. Additionally, SNS can be used to fan out notifications to end users using mobile push, SMS, and email.

You can get started with Amazon SNS in minutes by using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS Software Development Kit (SDK).

IBM MQ is a middleware product used to send or exchange messages across multiple platforms, including applications, systems, files, and services via MQs (messaging queues). This solution helps simplify the creation of business applications, and also makes them easier to maintain. IBM MQ is security-rich, has high performance, and provides a universal messaging backbone with robust connectivity. In addition, it also integrates easily with existing IT assets by using an SOA (service oriented architecture).

IBM MQ can be deployed:

On-premises
In the cloud
Hybrid cloud

IBM MQ supports the following APIs:

MQI (Message Queue Interface)
REST
.NET
MQTT
JMS
IBM MQ Light

IBM MQ Features

Some of the most powerful IBM MQ features include:

High availability
Stability and scalability
Flexible deployment options
Uniform clusters
Automated and intelligent workload balancing
Broad language, API, and messaging protocol support
Administrative features that simplify messaging management
Open standards development tools
Simple management tools

IBM MQ Benefits

Some of the benefits of using IBM MQ include:

Multi-style messaging: IBM MQ supports simple multi-style messaging, making it easy to connect diverse systems with support for message queuing, transactions, and more.
Reduced risk: With IBM MQ you will never lose a message, and messages are never delivered more than once.
Cloud-native: Because IBM MQ has a minimal infrastructure, it is suitable to be cloud-native, and therefore has the capability to always remain on.
Available anywhere: Using IBM MQ, you have access to secure messaging anywhere, at any time.
Secure: IBM MQ makes sure to keep your data safe by using TLS secured communications, providing access identity management, message-level security, and more measures to protect your information.
Easy for application programmers: To use IBM MQ, application programmers do not need to have any knowledge of communications programming.
Technical support: IBM MQ has a large user community and also provides support 24/7 as needed.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by IBM MQ users who are currently using the solution.

PeerSpot user Sunil S., a manager at a financial services firm, explains that they never lose messages are never lost in transit, mentioning that he can store messages and forward them as required: "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."

Another PeerSpot reviewer, Luis L. who is a solutions director at Thesys Technologies, says that IBM MQ is a valuable solution and is "A stable and reliable software that offers good integration between different systems."

The head of operations at a financial services firm notes that "I have found the solution to be very robust. It has a strong reputation, is easy to use, simple to configure in our enterprise software, and supports all the protocols that we use."

In addition, a Software Engineer at a financial services firm praises the security benefits of it and states that “it has the most security features I've seen in a communication solution. Security is the most important thing for our purposes."

Sample Customers

PlayOn! Sports, NASA, Change Healthcare, FCBarcelona

Deutsche Bahn, Bon-Ton, WestJet, ARBURG, Northern Territory Government, Tata Steel Europe, Sharp Corporation

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