Amazon SQS
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| Fact | Amazon SQS | EMQX |
|---|---|---|
| Company headquarters | Amazon Web Services, Inc. lists 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, Washington 98109-5210, United States. | LinkedIn lists Menlo Park, California as EMQ Technologies' headquarters. |
| Company legal name | AWS identifies the U.S. contracting entity as Amazon Web Services, Inc. | Crunchbase identifies the legal name as EMQ Technologies Inc. |
| Compliance | AWS says its compliance program supports 143 security standards and certifications, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3 and NIST 800-171. | EMQ states that EMQX Cloud and Enterprise have SOC 2 Type 1 reports and that the company maintains TISAX AL2, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27701:2019, ISO 20000-1:2018 and ISO 9001:2015 certifications or attestations. |
| Founded | 2006 | 2017 |
| Integrations | AWS lists integrations with Redshift, DynamoDB, RDS, EC2, ECS, Lambda, and S3, and describes fanout with SNS. | EMQX Enterprise provides more than 40 out-of-box integrations including Kafka, AWS RDS, MongoDB, Oracle, SAP and time-series databases. |
| Purpose | Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service for microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. | EMQX Enterprise is an MQTT messaging platform for connecting, moving, and processing IoT business data in real time. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.3 out of 5 from 143 reviews. | 4.6 out of 5 from 23 reviews |
| Rating on Gartner Peer Insights | 4.6 out of 5 from 5,320 ratings. | 4.5 out of 5 from 6 reviews |
Amazon SQS plans
- Free TierFree
- Standard queuesPriced on request
- FIFO queuesPriced on request
- Amazon SQS Free TierFree
- Pay-as-you-go—
EMQX plans
- Dedicated Flex$234 a month
- BYOCPriced on request
- ServerlessFree
- Enterprise—
Pick Amazon SQS if…
SQS suits teams building microservices, distributed systems, or serverless applications that need components to exchange messages. AWS describes its audience as including startups, enterprises, nonprofits, and governments.
Pick EMQX if…
EMQX suits teams building IoT systems that need MQTT messaging alongside data processing, protocol gateways, and integrations. Its deployment choices and management API may also suit teams that want to operate the platform through containers, Kubernetes, or installation packages.