Amazon MQ

A message broker is a piece of software designed to help you facilitate communications between application components to exchange information. Message brokers allow different services to communicate with each other directly, even if those services are written in different languages or run on different platforms.

Many organizations have existing message brokering services within their on-premises environments that support their on-premises applications. One such service is Apache ActiveMQ, which is probably one of the most popular Java-based message brokers.

When clients are looking to migrate their on-premises applications, you must consider where such third-party message brokering services are being consumed. AWS offers a service known as Amazon MQ, which is a fully managed message broker service that provides compatibility with popular message brokers.

Amazon recommends using Amazon MQ to migrate applications from existing message brokers where compatibility...