Amazon EventBridge vs PubSub+ Platform comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Solace are both solutions in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.0, while Solace is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 6.0% mindshare in MOM, compared to Solace’s 12.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Solace users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Amazon EventBridge and PubSub+ Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EventBridge

Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

6th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

PubSub+ Platform

Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Message Queue (MQ) Software (9th), Event Monitoring (11th), Streaming Analytics (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Amazon EventBridge is 6.0%, up from 5.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PubSub+ Platform is 12.7%, down from 15.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
PubSub+ Platform	12.7%
Amazon EventBridge	6.0%
Other	81.3%

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HemantKumar7

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Automated event monitoring has improved alerting and simplifies scheduling for data workflows

The best features Amazon EventBridge offers include the ability to integrate multiple AWS services such as SNS, Lambda, SQS, and ECS with Amazon EventBridge. You can filter events based on routing rules, and it is serverless and easy to auto-scale. You can also manage event routing across cross-accounts and schedule cron jobs inside Amazon EventBridge, which provides numerous use cases. The impact of Amazon EventBridge on my organization is very positive. I can directly receive notifications via Amazon EventBridge because I have integrated my Redshift queries inside my JSON payload, and I receive notifications over email as well as over Squadcast based on the events triggered from the Redshift side. Amazon EventBridge helps reduce manual work significantly. Previously, when I did not receive Redshift events and my Redshift query got stuck, which mainly happened during maintenance time and impacted the customer side, I had no way to address it. By monitoring those Redshift query events inside Amazon EventBridge, I can receive timely alerts via Squadcast, allowing me to monitor and fix the respective issues with the help of the Redshift data team.

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Deepankar Bbhowmick

Integration Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Messaging design has become visual and reliable and now supports fast microservice communication

The unique functions I appreciate about PubSub+ Platform are that it allows me to design my solution in a graphical manner, which is not available in many other products, and the design can also be pushed to the actual infrastructure layer, making it quite advantageous. Mesh technology is useful in scenarios where different geographies have to be connected, although such situations are not commonly found. It is beneficial but not a super-used feature of PubSub+ Platform. The event replay function is quite mature in PubSub+ Platform, allowing me to replay messages that are days in the past, which is a good feature. The main benefits PubSub+ Platform provides for the end-user include building a robust and scalable system with very low network latency, which improves the customer experience, whether using mobile phones or applications. This type of messaging framework is extremely important, and Solace is a very good product in that space. Nowadays, most applications are built using microservices technology, with small microservices interchanging messages via PubSub+ Platform. Without it, realizing a scalable system would not be possible; for example, one cannot have Netflix or similar services that require quick data transit and a good user experience, ensuring that data cannot be lost in transit. The analytics part of PubSub+ Platform is quite useful as it can connect with many analytical software tools, mainly for analysis of system logs, such as Splunk, DataDog, or Prometheus. It has the flexibility to connect with any of these and supports OpenTelemetry, which is not available in many other products, making traceability very easy. I can see how a message travels from a source system to the target system, end-to-end, along with what happens to that message along the path, making the analytics quite good.

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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

"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 is very flexible."

"The impact of Amazon EventBridge on my organization is very positive."

"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."

"In my assessment of Solace against other products — as I was responsible for evaluating various products and bringing the right tool into companies in the past — I worked with multiple platforms like RabbitMQ, Confluent, Kafka, and various other tools in the market. But I found the event mesh capability to be a very interesting as well as fulfilling capability, towards what we want to achieve from a digital-integration-strategy point of view... It's distributed, yet it is intelligently connected. It can also span and I can plug and play any number of brokers into the event mesh, so it's a great deal. That's a differentiator."

"We like the seamless flexibility in protocol exchange offering without writing a code."

"If we talk about Solace, you see the value-add layer; I can say that Solace is a basic Kafka, but on top of that Kafka layer, they have added their own layer that is really good, as this is where it adds value and why we went for it."

"I rate the PubSub+ Platform a 9 out of 10."

"One of the main reasons for using PubSub+ is that it is a proper event manager that can handle events in a reactive way."

"Guaranteed Messaging allows for us to transport messages between on-prem and the cloud without any loss of data."

"The most useful features has been the WAN optimization and probably the HybridEdge, which requires some third-party adapters or plugins. The idea that we can position Solace as a protocol-agnostic message transport fabric is key to our company having all manners of asynchronous messaging protocols from MQ, Kafka, JMS, etc. I really like the WAN optimization: Send once over a WAN, then distribute locally as many times as there are subscribers."

"Some valuable features include reconnecting topics, placing queues, and direct connections to MongoDB. The platform provides a dashboard to monitor the status of messages, such as how many have been processed or delivered, which is helpful for tracking performance."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"A challenge we currently have is Solace's ability to integrate with single sign-on in our Active Directory and other single sign-on tools and platforms that any company would have. It's important for the platforms to work. Typically, they support only LDAP-based connectivity to our SQL Servers."

"One of the areas of improvement would be if we could tell the story a bit better about what an event mesh does or why an event mesh is foundational to a large enterprise that has a wide diversity of applications that are homegrown and a small number off the shelf."

"The section on observability pertains to understanding the functioning of an event crash. Instead of focusing on how the crash occurs, attention is given to the observable aspects, such as a memory pipeline where one person pushes messages and another reads them. However, this pipeline often encounters issues, such as the reader being unavailable, causing the system to become stuck and preventing the messages from moving forward. This can lead to the pipeline being permanently stalled."

"It could be cheaper. It could also have easier usage. It is a brilliant product, but it is quite complex to use."

"Make it open source :-) with limited features so that this is not a barrier for using the technology in some places where they will only use open source technology despite then just paying for support (and paid features) on any used open source technology in the organization, as its a misnomer in my view the amount of large companies claiming to only use open source but then using products that are paid versions with additional features included."

"I heard that it is quite expensive compared to Kafka."

"The licensing and the cost are the major pitfalls."

"The ease of management could be approved. The GUI is very good, but to configure and manage these devices programmatically in the software version is not easy. For example, if I would like to spin up a new software broker, then I could in theory use the API, but it would require a considerable amount of development effort to do so. There should be a tool, or something that Solace supports, that we could use for this, e.g., a platform like Terraform where we could use infrastructure as code to configure our source appliances."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon EventBridge's pricing is pretty cheap."

"Having a free version is critical for our technology operations use case. This is primarily because our technology operations team is a cost center in our company. They are not profit drivers and having a free version for installation will probably meet our needs. Even for production, it'll support up to a 100,000 messages per second. I don't think in technology operations that we have that many events and alerts from our detection tools. Even if I have 20 or 30 event detection products out there, they're only going to publish the things which are critical or warnings. I don't think we'll ever reach a 100,000 messages per second."

"I would rate the product's pricing a ten out of ten."

"The pricing and licensing were very transparent and well-communicated by our account manager."

"We have been really happy with the product licensing rates. It has been free for us, up to a 100,000 transactions per second, and all we have to do is pay for support. Making their product available and accessible to us has not been a problem at all."

"It could be cheaper. Its licensing is on a yearly basis."

"Having a free version of the solution was a big, important part of our decision to go with it. This was the big driver for us to evaluate Solace. We started using it as the free version. When we felt comfortable with the free version, that is when we bought the enterprise version."

"We are looking for something that will add value and fit for purpose. Freeware is good if you want to try something quickly without putting in much money. However, as far as our decision is concerned, I don't think it helps. At the end of the day, if we are convinced that a capability is required, we will ask for the funding. Then, when the funding is available, we will go for an enterprise solution only."

"The price of PubSub+ Event Broker is reasonable for the capability it offers. However, when compared to others solutions on the market it is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

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Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Construction Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	15

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon EventBridge?

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. In Amazon EventBridge, you can ...

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What advice do you have for others considering Amazon EventBridge?

My advice for others looking into using Amazon EventBridge is that if you want a serverless event system and do not want any server to be deployed for monitoring events, and if you are using multip...

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What is your primary use case for Amazon EventBridge?

My main use case for Amazon EventBridge is receiving notifications whenever an event triggers. We have set up the payload inside Amazon EventBridge and have integrated Redshift with Amazon EventBri...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PubSub+ Event Broker?

Pricing-wise for PubSub+ Platform, I find it a little expensive, so I would rate it at six.

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What needs improvement with PubSub+ Event Broker?

Potential areas for improvement in PubSub+ Platform are its authentication mechanisms, which could be slightly better. While simple authentication using basic methods is easy, moving to more robust...

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What is your primary use case for PubSub+ Event Broker?

PubSub+ Platform is primarily used for guaranteed delivery of messages from across systems, for microservice-based development, and for high-speed data consumption purposes. Guaranteed transmission...

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PubSub+ Event Broker, PubSub+ Event Portal

Overview

Amazon EventBridge efficiently manages recurring tasks and integrates seamlessly with cloud architectures, essential for triggering Lambda functions and offering effortless automation. By eliminating the need for a broker, it provides users with serverless designs and scalable solutions.

Amazon EventBridge is a robust event bus solution that simplifies event-driven architectures and facilitates automated workflows across AWS infrastructures. It supports cron job setups and customizes service dependencies while processing vast amounts of data without needing intermediaries. EventBridge is beneficial for automating processes like notifications and streamlining integrations with services such as AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and others. Despite needing support for simultaneous tasks and extended Cron capabilities, EventBridge remains essential for those requiring efficient automated task scheduling.

What are the key features?

Efficient Recurring Task Management: Handles periodic tasks akin to cron scheduling, vital for automation.
Serverless Design: Offers a serverless architecture, reducing infrastructure management effort.
Seamless Integration: Works with AWS CloudFormation, CDK, and API Gateways for event management.
No Broker Required: Processes large-scale data without intermediaries, ensuring efficiency.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Cost-Free Scalability: Grows with demand, maintaining performance without additional expenses.
Simplicity for AWS Infrastructure: Easy setup tailored for AWS technologies enhances accessibility.
Schema Support: Provides schema definitions, aiding in standardized event processing.
Automation Potential: Efficiently automates workflows, saving time and resources.

In industries, Amazon EventBridge is utilized for deploying automated operations like triggering notifications and Lambda functions. Teams are automating image deployment notifications on platforms such as Slack when updates occur in the ECR repository. It's especially valued in environments where regular, scheduled tasks are critical, such as development operations requiring hourly triggers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

PubSub+ Platform is designed for real-time message publishing and outstanding interoperability. With features like intuitive administration and topic filtering, it offers both stability and high performance for scalable deployments across diverse scenarios.

PubSub+ Platform enhances data integration with its event mesh and seamless protocol compatibility, providing a comprehensive solution for organizations tracking shipments, generating reports, and managing transactions. Its granular topic filtering and WAN optimization ensure high utility in event-driven applications and cloud deployments. Users highlight the platform's intuitive administration and ease of management, though some seek improved integration with third-party tools and enhanced observability. Concerns include scalability for large payloads and training resource availability. Despite its interface complexity, PubSub+ remains valuable for trading and market data distribution.

What are the key features of PubSub+ Platform?

Real-time messaging: Facilitates seamless communication across platforms.
Flexible topic hierarchy: Supports dynamic topic taxonomy for efficient data management.
Event mesh: Enhances integration and interoperability with diverse protocols.
Intuitive administration: Simplifies system management and configuration.
WAN optimization: Ensures efficient connectivity for global deployment.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Messaging stability: Offers consistent performance in dynamic environments.
Scalability: Provides seamless expansion to accommodate growing data volumes.
Security: Maintains robust protection for sensitive information.
Support and configuration: Accessible, reliable support, and UI-driven setup streamline the management.

PubSub+ Platform is widely implemented for asynchronous messaging in industries like finance for trading and market data, logistics for shipment tracking, and tech operations management. It enables companies to modernize applications while ensuring data accuracy and efficiency across global systems.

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