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Amazon SNS vs IBM MQ
Amazon SNS
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Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon SNS
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is well suited for applications built on event driven architecture. It makes it easy to log and track events in real time from the source to the destination. The permissions should be configured properly in order to use SNS else while implementing you can come across Access Denied errors. The dashboards are difficult to maintain to track the utilization.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Banking Company, 5001-10,000 employeesIBM MQ
IBM MQ is best suited if you are having a large project dealing with sensitive data and message security and integrity are of the top priority in addition to having huge volumes of the data. You should always try to create less number of queue managers and rather create more queues on the queue managers and make the nomenclature in such a way that each team has its different set of queues.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
Amazon SNS
- Built in for quicker setup within AWS ecosystem.
- Trusted as you control the users and configuration via IAM and easy access controls.
- Can be sent to S3 simple storage or for long term storage if required.
- Can be used in many regions, same configs.
Senior Systems Administrator
Bentek Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees
IBM MQ
- 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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Analyst in Information Technology
Banking Company, 201-500 employeesCons
Amazon SNS
- At times you receive access denied errors which are annoying.
- Rarely do you receive internal failure errors where you can't access the information. It is rare but it does happen.
- You are required to add an MWS Authentication Token every so often. I wish it would pull that information automatically for you so you don't have to go searching for it.
Account Manager
Five Star CommerceMarketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees
IBM MQ
- Setting up security can be time-consuming and take some effort.
- MQ Explorer on the client side could sometimes be a pain especially on Windows and during an upgrade.
- IBM is not providing a good administration tool like MQMon included with the product.
Integration Architect
WoolworthsRetail, 1001-5000 employees
Usability
Amazon SNS
Amazon SNS 8.5
Based on 12 answers
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fairly simple tool to use, with the only complexity coming around creating new endpoints. Sending messages and transferring them to clients is an "it just works" out of the box solution, and on that basis, I have to say this tool does its job well, and easily.

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Professional in Information Technology
Human Resources Company, 51-200 employeesIBM MQ
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Support Rating
Amazon SNS
Amazon SNS 8.6
Based on 17 answers
Amazon Simple Notification Sevices (SNS) support depends on your usage pattern and definitely on your support plan as an enterprise with AWS. Before reaching out to support you should read their documentation, as they have mentioned almost all the common issues and their solutions there. However, for specific issues, they generally respond in 1-2 business days.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Banking Company, 501-1000 employeesIBM MQ
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon SNS
Amazon Simple Notification Service and PagerDuty have been used by various organizations. Amazon SNS is ideal if you're within an AWS environment. PagerDuty is used when we are working outside of Amazon Web Services. Though PagerDuty is more expensive than Amazon SNS they do have better reporting capabilities in specific areas.
Co-Founder, President, CTO
Infofree Sales Leads | Business Lists | Person Search & CRM101Computer Software, 11-50 employees
IBM MQ
IBM MQ is the powerhouse but has a price, while ActiveMQ is free and get things done. If the project warrants it, the use of IBM MQ is highly recommended. But if the project does not need the power, it is better to avoid the cost.
Systems Analyst
Consultor independiente de softwareComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
Amazon SNS
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) saved us a lot of extra coding time by providing straightforward functionality we needed in our ad campaign automation tool.
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) allows us to maintain a consistent, serverless model within our applications.

Verified User
Vice-President in Information Technology
Marketing & Advertising Company, 501-1000 employeesIBM MQ
- Positive gains in data sharing. The time to market to set up new customers is relatively easy. Not touchless but easy.
- Few maintenance costs. It just works.
- Upgrades are painless so little money is spent on them, yielding positive ROIs.
Middleware Administrator
OCCInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees
Pricing Details
Amazon SNS
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Amazon SNS Editions & Modules
Edition
API Requests | 0.501 |
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Notification Deliveries | 0.502 |
API Requests & Payload Data | 0.013 |
- per 1 million requests
- per million notifications
- per 1 million
Additional Pricing Details
—IBM MQ
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
IBM MQ Editions & Modules
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