Amazon MQ vs EMQX comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and EMQ are both solutions in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.5, while EMQ is ranked #11. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 4.4% mindshare in MQ, compared to EMQ’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon MQ

Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

EMQX

Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software

11th

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IoT Connectivity (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of Amazon MQ is 4.4%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of EMQX is 2.4%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Message Queue (MQ) Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Amazon MQ	4.4%
EMQX	2.4%
Other	93.2%

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RamilCerrada

Solution architect at SM Supermalls

Has provided consistent functionality across on-premise and cloud while simplifying cloud integration

I have experience with on-premise setups using ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ, but with regards to AWS, I use it via cloud only. There's a free tier with Amazon MQ based on their website, which is a six-month free trial of a single instance, allowing per month usage of either ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ, five gig of Amazon EFS storage, and for ActiveMQ, it's 20 gig of Amazon EBS storage for RabbitMQ. I did not purchase Amazon MQ through AWS Marketplace. Amazon MQ has published information about having 650 hours of free trial usage. This can be found via the AWS website by searching for AWS MQ. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Amazon MQ an eight out of ten.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

12%

University

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	3

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon MQ?

The tool's most valuable feature is its managed service aspect. It's simple to implement and use. It requires minimal effort to maintain business operations.

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What needs improvement with Amazon MQ?

Amazon MQ needs to have data collected on performance to analyze trends for improvement. Additionally, some tools can suggest how to improve performance in terms of speed, time, and processing, whi...

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Overview

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Message brokers allow different software systems–often using different programming languages, and on different platforms–to communicate and exchange information. Amazon MQ reduces your operational load by managing the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of ActiveMQ, a popular open-source message broker. Connecting your current applications to Amazon MQ is easy because it uses industry-standard APIs and protocols for messaging, including JMS, NMS, AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, and WebSocket. Using standards means that in most cases, there’s no need to rewrite any messaging code when you migrate to AWS.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

EMQ is an innovative open-source software provider with strong roots in IoT data infrastructure, delivering the world’s leading cloud-native MQTT messaging, streaming database, and edge computing solutions. We power the organizations with future-proof IoT solutions and digital transformation through unified "Connect, Move, Process, and Analyze" IoT data in business-critical scenarios for the IoT era.

Since 2017 EMQ has been developing a high-performance and massively scalable distributed MQTT messaging server – EMQX to accelerate the connectivity and integration of a wide spectrum of IoT applications and data across multiple platforms.

So far, EMQX has been adopted by more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100 million IoT devices worldwide.

EMQ’s robust and flexible edge-to-cloud IoT data solutions encompass a suite of technologies designed for IoT applications: reliability, security, availability, scalability, latency & throughput. This enables successful enterprise-grade IoT deployments with ease and scale.Your IoT data can be flexibly integrated into enterprise systems and pre-built extensions for quick integration to other enterprise systems such as Kafka, Confluent, MongoDB Atlas and Oracle, etc.

Website: www.emqx.io

EMQ

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SkipTheDishes, Malmberg, Dealer.com, Bench Accounting

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