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Amazon MQ Pricing: $500+/Month Before Your First Message
Amazon MQ bills per broker instance hour: an mq.m5.large ActiveMQ active/standby pair is ~$420/month before storage. Add EFS storage, data transfer, and monitoring and a production HA deployment lands at $510 to $560/month, or $720 to $770 for a three-node RabbitMQ cluster, with zero messages flowing. Use MQ only when AMQP, JMS, STOMP, MQTT, or OpenWire protocol compatibility is non-negotiable.
Kevin W.
Palaniappan P