Setting up Amazon MQ
Before you can use Amazon MQ, you must complete the following steps.
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Step 1: Prerequisites
Sign up for an AWS account
To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. For information about creating an AWS account, see Getting started with an AWS account in the AWS Account Management Reference Guide.
Step 2: create a user and get your AWS credentials
Users need programmatic access if they want to interact with AWS outside of the AWS Management Console. The way to grant programmatic access depends on the type of user that's accessing AWS.
To grant users programmatic access, choose one of the following options.
| Which user needs programmatic access? | To | By |
|---|---|---|
| IAM | (Recommended) Use console credentials as temporary credentials to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or AWS APIs. |
Following the instructions for the interface that you want to use.
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Workforce identity (Users managed in IAM Identity Center) |
Use temporary credentials to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or AWS APIs. |
Following the instructions for the interface that you want to use.
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| IAM | Use temporary credentials to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or AWS APIs. | Following the instructions in Using temporary credentials with AWS resources in the IAM User Guide. |
| IAM | (Not recommended) Use long-term credentials to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or AWS APIs. |
Following the instructions for the interface that you want to use.
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Step 3: get ready to use the example codes
The following tutorials show how you can work with Amazon MQ brokers
using the AWS Management Console as well as how to connect to your Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ brokers programatically. To use the ActiveMQ Java example code, you must install the
Java Standard Edition Development Kit
You can also create and manage brokers programmatically using Amazon MQ REST API and AWS SDKs.
Next steps
Now that you're prepared to work with Amazon MQ, get started by creating a broker. Depending on your broker engine type, you can then connect a Java application to your Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ broker or use the RabbitMQ Java client library to connect a JVM-based application to your Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ broker.
