Legacy vendor systems must exchange messages using JMS/AMQP with a city’s cloud workloads, while new cloud-native apps prefer simpler messaging. When is Amazon MQ the right choice?
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Short Explanation
Amazon MQ is the bilingual clerk who still speaks JMS/AMQP with old vendor systems; SNS and SQS are the modern intercoms for cloud-native apps. Don’t hire the bilingual clerk for every hallway chat—or pretend a message broker is a website CD rack.
Full Explanation
Amazon MQ provides managed brokers compatible with legacy protocols such as JMS and AMQP. Cloud-native designs typically prefer SNS and SQS. Choosing MQ solely by habit, or misusing it for unrelated storage, misses purpose-built service selection.