Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ brokers
What is an Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ broker?
A broker is a message broker environment running on Amazon MQ. It is the basic building block of Amazon MQ. The combined description of the
broker instance class (m5, t3) and
size (large, micro) is a
broker instance type (for example, mq.m5.large). For more information, see Broker instance types.
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A single-instance broker is comprised of one broker in one Availability Zone. The broker communicates with your application and with an Amazon EBS or Amazon EFS storage volume.
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An active/standby broker is comprised of two brokers in two different Availability Zones, configured in a redundant pair. These brokers communicate synchronously with your application, and with Amazon EFS.
For more information, see Deployment options for Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ brokers.
You can enable automatic minor version upgrades to new minor versions of the broker engine, as Apache releases new versions. Automatic upgrades occur during the maintenance window defined by the day of the week, the time of day (in 24-hour format), and the time zone (UTC by default).
For information about creating and managing brokers, see the following:
Supported wire-level protocols
You can access your brokers by using any programming language that ActiveMQ supports
Attributes
An ActiveMQ broker has several attributes, for example:
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A name (
MyBroker) -
An ID (
b-1234a5b6-78cd-901e-2fgh-3i45j6k178l9) -
An Amazon Resource Name (ARN) (
arn:aws:mq:us-east-2:123456789012:broker:MyBroker:b-1234a5b6-78cd-901e-2fgh-3i45j6k178l9) -
An ActiveMQ Web Console URL (
https://b-1234a5b6-78cd-901e-2fgh-3i45j6k178l9-1.mq.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:8162)For more information, see Web Console
in the Apache ActiveMQ documentation. Important
If you specify an authorization map which doesn't include the
activemq-webconsolegroup, you can't use the ActiveMQ Web Console because the group isn't authorized to send messages to, or receive messages from, the Amazon MQ broker. -
Wire-level protocol endpoints:
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amqp+ssl://b-1234a5b6-78cd-901e-2fgh-3i45j6k178l9-1.mq.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:5671 -
mqtt+ssl://b-1234a5b6-78cd-901e-2fgh-3i45j6k178l9-1.mq.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:8883 -
ssl://b-1234a5b6-78cd-901e-2fgh-3i45j6k178l9-1.mq.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:61617Note
This is an OpenWire endpoint.
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stomp+ssl://b-1234a5b6-78cd-901e-2fgh-3i45j6k178l9-1.mq.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:61614 -
wss://b-1234a5b6-78cd-901e-2fgh-3i45j6k178l9-1.mq.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:61619
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Note
For an active/standby broker, Amazon MQ provides two ActiveMQ Web Console URLs, but only one URL is active at a time.
Likewise, Amazon MQ provides two endpoints for each wire-level protocol, but only one endpoint is active in each pair at a time.
The -1 and -2 suffixes denote a redundant pair.
For a full list of broker attributes, see the following in the Amazon MQ REST API Reference:
Broker users
An ActiveMQ user is a person or an application that can access the queues and topics of an ActiveMQ broker.
You can configure users to have specific permissions. For example, you can allow some users to access the ActiveMQ Web Console
A group is a semantic label. You can assign a group to a user and configure permissions for groups to send to, receive from, and administer specific queues and topics.
Important
Making changes to a user does not apply the changes to the user immediately. To apply your changes, you must wait for the next maintenance window or reboot the broker.
For information about users and groups, see the following in the Apache ActiveMQ documentation:
For information about creating, editing, and deleting ActiveMQ users, see the following:
User attributes
For a full list of user attributes, see the following in the Amazon MQ REST API Reference:
