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# Amazon MQ

**Introduction**

* Managed Apache ActiveMQ
* Traditional applications running from on-premise may use open protocols such as: MQTT, AMQP, STOMP, Openwire, WSS, etc. You may want to avoid re-engineering when migrating to the cloud.
* Doesn't scale as much as SQS.
* Runs on dedicated machine, can run in HA with failover.
* Has both queue feature and topic feature.

**Feature**

* Can be migrated from IBM MQ, TIBCO EMS, Rabbit MQ, Apache Active MQ.