Amazon SNS vs IBM MQ

• Super simple setup and deployment. You can have a new service set up within minutes and in a serverless environment as well
• Well documented and incredibly easy to use. There are available APIs in almost every relevant language and are all well documented by AWS. Getting any team up to date on their new Notification architecture shouldn't take longer than a day.
• Being managed by AWS themselves makes the service highly available in every possible way. Your SNS deployment is almost guaranteed to never go down without you ever lifting a finger to make it so.

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• Security is a major improvement in IBM MQ 9. Authorization management became more granular and effective.
• Programmer friendly. Not only does MQ work great, it provides with MQ specific and JMS-standards access to important functions for the developers to perform better.

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• The SNS Console has not been updated in a long time, and it was confusing to begin with.
• Testing systems that use SNS end-to-end can be tricky; LocalStack somewhat ameliorates this problem.
• Debugging is difficult.

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• Monitoring is generally a feature left to third party apps. Providing better monitoring tool would be a great market differentiator.
• Built in alarms and notifications (see above improvement) would be helpful.
• GUI modeling of queue managers, channels and queues would be a good improvement.

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• The ability to trigger AWS Lambda functions when messages are published to topics is a great pattern. It allows us to build features that are inexpensive to run and maintain.
• Our developers are more likely to create notifications for non-emergency alerts because SNS makes it so easy to send emails for CloudWatch alarms. This helps us to be mindful of problems that may require attention but are not worth waking anyone up at night.
• Some teammates have experimented with SNS for push notifications; they were disappointed by the lack of features and difficulty in debugging.

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• I dont chew numbers, but I guess that a solid investment faithfully following around 15 years of the product timeline is proof of the confidence it gave/gives and the effect it has performed on the proposed strategies.

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