A managed message broker like Amazon MQ is essential to connect applications with messaging. Join this workshop to learn how to set up an Amazon MQ broker and use the supporting protocols. We dive deep into the security and monitoring features of Amazon MQ. Learn how Amazon MQ works across multiple Availability Zones to provide high availability to your systems. Leave this session with a deeper understanding of how to use Amazon MQ to migrate your enterprise applications to the cloud.

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Accelerating App Migration Using Amazon MQ
Assaji Aluwihare
Principal Business Development Manager
AWS, Messaging
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Workshop repeats
Monday, November 26th
API201-R Accelerating App Migration Using Amazon MQ
1:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | MGM, Level 3, Premier Ballroom 311, T2
Wednesday, November 28th
API201-R1 Accelerating App Migration Using Amazon MQ
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Bellagio, Level 1, Bellagio Ballroom 4, T1

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Related breakouts
Tuesday, November 27th
API202 Migrating Real-time Sports Scores to the Cloud via Low Latency Messaging
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Aria East, Level 1, Joshua 9
Wednesday, November 28th
API305 Choosing the Right Messaging Service for your Distributed App
3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | MGM, Level 1, Grand Ballroom 122, T2

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Agenda
Lead in and account setup 5 mins
Introduction to Amazon MQ 25 mins
Amazon MQ workshop 75 mins
Q&A 15 mins

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Account set up—Before we begin
Prerequisite:
Go to workshop link:
Click on:
An AWS account with rights to use AWS CloudFormation,
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon
EC2, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3),
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), and
Amazon MQ
https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-mq-
workshop
Launch the CloudFormation Stack

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Inventory
CRM
Ordering
front end
Ordering
back endMoM
Corporate data center
Message-oriented middleware (MoM) or Message Broker
Enterprise messaging

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Amazon MQ is a managed
message broker service for
Apache ActiveMQ that makes
it easy to set up and operate
message brokers in the cloud
What is Amazon MQ?

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Amazon MQ capabilities
SIMPLE BROKER
CREATION
FULLY MANAGED
APACHE
ACTIVEMQ
HIGHLY
AVAILABLE AND
DURABLE
BROAD API
COMPATIBILITY
MESSAGES
ENCRYPTED AT
REST & IN
TRANSIT
VPC AND PUBLIC
ENDPOINTS
EASY MONITORING
WITH
CLOUDWATCH
BROKER
SCALABILTY

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Amazon MQ use cases—Easily eliminate overhead and costly licenses
Inventory
Ordering
front end
Ordering
back end
MoMCRM
Licenses are still expensive
High availability is difficult
Still need operations staff

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Amazon MQ use cases—Easily eliminate overhead and costly licenses
Inventory
Ordering
front end
Ordering
back endCRM
Amazon MQ
No more annual licenses
Highly available
Managed service

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Amazon MQ use cases—Migrate applications and re-factor faster
CRM
Amazon MQ
Inventory
Corporate data center
Ordering
front end
Ordering
back endMoM

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CRM
Amazon MQ
Inventory
Amazon MQ use cases—Migrate applications and re-factor faster
Easier to optimize/re-architect cloud applications
Corporate data center
Ordering
front end
Ordering
back endMoM

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Rich messaging features
DISTRIBUTED
TRANSACTIONS
QUEUES AND
TOPICS
ORDERING AND
MESSAGE GROUPS
TRANSIENT AND
PERSISTENT
MESSAGES
SELECTORS FOR
FILTERING
MESSAGE DELAY
AND SCHEDULING
VIRTUAL AND
COMPOSITE
DESTINATIONS
REDELIVERY
POLICY
JMS, AMQP, MQTT,
NMS, STOMP,
WEBSOCKET API
UNLIMITED
MESSAGE SIZE

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Point-to-point messaging—Queues
Each message is consumed by a
single consumer (process/thread)
Pushes messages to consumers
which ACK messages
Supports ordering, once-and-
only-once delivery

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Fan-out—Topics
Topics support
publish/subscribe semantics
Multiple receivers can consume
the same message
Receivers do not acknowledge
messages
Only connected subscribers
receive the message

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Amazon MQ broker configuration
• Supports 1000 configurations per account
• 300 configuration revisions with roll-back
• Changes are applied in sequence in HA mode, either
immediately or in the maintenance window

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Configuration options available in Amazon MQ
• destinationInterceptors
• mirroredQueue
• virtualTopic
• compositeQueue
• destinationPolicy
• pendingMessageLimitStrategy
• dispatchPolicy
• subscriptionRecoveryPolicy
• destinations
• plugins
• authorizationPlugin
• discardingDLQBrokerPlugin
• forcePersistencyModeBrokerPlugin
• redeliveryPlugin
• statisticsBrokerPlugin
• timeStampingBrokerPlugin
For the full list of configuration options supported by Amazon MQ refer to
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/permitted-collections.html

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Amazon MQ benefits
Simple Durable Highly
available
Feature rich Low latency
Fully managed
eliminating
operational
overhead
Message stored
across multiple AZs
Easily implement
multi-AZ availability
Easily migrate
existing patterns
Deliver time-critical
messages

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Workshop objective—Introduce Amazon MQ
Learn how to:
• Create a broker
• Understand queues and topics
• Test fail-over
• Monitor with Amazon CloudWatch
• Control security
• See broker statistics
• Test interoperability
https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-mq-workshop

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Workshop agenda
Lab one: Broker set up 10 mins
Lab two: Point-to-point messaging using queues 10 mins
Lab three: Publish-Subscribe messaging using topics 10 mins
Lab four: Testing a broker fail-over 10 mins
Lab five: Set up Amazon CloudWatch to monitor our broker 10 mins
Lab six: Tighten up security with access control 15 min
Lab seven: Watch the broker statistics 5 mins
Lab eight: Protocol interoperability 10 mins
https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-mq-workshop

25. Thank you!
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Assaji Aluwihare
aluwihar@amazon.com

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