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Amazon EventBridge vs IBM MQ comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EventBridge
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
3rd
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
7
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 November 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Amazon EventBridge is 6.4%, up from 5.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM MQ is 16.2%, down from 21.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM MQ16.2%
Amazon EventBridge6.4%
Other77.4%
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
 

Featured Reviews

HS
DevOps Engineer at Systems Limited
Centralized event automation has transformed audits and now delivers near real time security alerts
The best features Amazon EventBridge offers include a lot of automations with events from every service, which I can automate as per my need. It has a lot of support from other services, and every service has many triggers that I can invoke. I can tell more about how the integrations with other AWS services help me in my daily work. My favorite integration is that I have some Lambda functions that trigger based on different triggers, such as when I have an unauthorized login or a root user tries to log in, or when I have some security vulnerabilities found in Inspector or Security Hub. I trigger the Lambda functions based on these kinds of events. With the help of the Lambda function, I send Slack messages to the channels so that I can react faster and have visibility for the issues.
Srinivas Krishnamsetty - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, At Tiaa Senior Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Asynchronous messaging has streamlined workflow triggers and supports reliable session rollbacks
The best features IBM MQ offers are the topic and subscription, as well as the IBM MQ session and message rollbacks, especially for JMS integration. IBM MQ serves as the underlying foundation for our JMS messages. IBM MQ has positively impacted my organization by enabling asynchronous processing, which means we do not need to wait for any responses from our downstream systems.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The impact of Amazon EventBridge on my organization is very positive."
"It has self-explanatory documentation and works with most projects."
"Using Amazon EventBridge is much better because it is centralized and has almost all the events from every service, so it helps to centralize everything."
"The best feature is that it allows you to perform recurring tasks efficiently."
"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."
"The best aspect of Amazon EventBridge is that it supports filtering options."
"Amazon EventBridge is very flexible."
"IBM MQ processes many thousands of messages in a second, which is efficient for handling high transaction volumes."
"The pub/sub model is the one that we use heavily on IBM MQ."
"So all in all, I think it's been fantastic."
"I have found the solution to be very robust. It has a strong reputation, easy to use, simple to configure in our enterprise software, and supports all the protocols that we use."
"IBM MQ is very stable; it's the best server in terms of interconnectivity and the reliability that the MQ series has, I haven't seen in other servers that are also based in MQ."
"If you have mission-critical applications that rely on an exchange of data, and the data is very valuable, then I would suggest using MQ."
"The number one thing is it's pretty reliable with data integration."
"It is easy to create a new queue, and the queue manager connecting to the remote queue works smoothly once the IP and port are included."
 

Cons

"Amazon EventBridge can be improved as there are numerous use cases, but it is not able to handle as many events as compared to other tools such as Kafka or RabbitMQ."
"I would rate the stability eight out of ten because sometimes I need to monitor EventBridge since there are occasions where it is not triggering."
"Amazon EventBridge can be improved by adding some events that are missing so those can be added to cover everything."
"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."
"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."
"IBM MQ's pricing is higher than its competitors'."
"We would like to see the IBM technical support team extend their hand to providing support for other cloud vendors like Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS"
"The initial setup is difficult. Creating your own cluster is difficult. Working with cluster repositories is difficult. Issue management with IBM MQ is difficult."
"The integration capabilities could be even easier."
"It's hard to put in a nutshell, but it's sort of developed as more of an on-premise solution. It hasn't moved much away from that."
"Technical support is average. In terms of efficiency and response time, it's average, comparable to any other vendor."
"They need to add the ability to send full messages (header + payload) from the MQ Explorer program, not just the payload."
"If we're trying to connect to something in the web or other things, we don't use it, because we feel that REST or other APIs are more easily adaptable to that environment."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"IBM's licensing model seems more reasonable than some competitors. They charge based on usage, which is good."
"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."
"It would be a 10 out of 10 if it wasn't so expensive."
"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."
"I think the pricing is reasonable, especially with IIB as a part of it."
"In terms of cost, IBM MQ is slightly on the higher side."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
17%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise147
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon EventBridge?
I do not feel that Amazon EventBridge requires any enhancement. Whatever purpose it is serving, I think it is more than enough. Cross-account connections are also working well. I do feel that havin...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon EventBridge?
My tools are primarily related to data engineering. Right now I am exploring Temporal, and we are also working on GX core native and Soda Core. We are using open source versions of these tools. The...
What is your primary use case for Amazon EventBridge?
Amazon EventBridge is being used for multiple purposes in our organization. One of the primary requirements is to receive events generated from Data Hub and route them to different AWS accounts. Fo...
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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