Amazon MQ release notes
The following table lists Amazon MQ feature releases and improvements.
Date | Documentation Update |
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November 18, 2024 |
Amazon MQ is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference guide. |
November 14, 2024 |
Amazon MQ is announcing the following engine version end of support dates: Managing Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ engine versions
Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions
For more information on upgrading to the latest version, see Upgrading an Amazon MQ broker engine version |
November 13, 2024 |
Amazon MQ now supports dual-stack service endpoints which you can connect to using either IPv4 or IPv6.
Amazon MQ dual-stack Regional service endpoints can be resolved with
both |
July 25, 2024 | Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.18, a new minor engine version release. For more information, see the following: |
July 22, 2024 |
Amazon MQ now supports quorum queues only on brokers using version 3.13 and above. Quorum queues are a replicated FIFO queue type that use the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain data consistency. Quorum queues provide poison message handling, which can help you manage unprocessed messages. To get started with quorum queues, see Quorum queues for RabbitMQ on Amazon MQ. |
July 2, 2024 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ 3.13, a minor version release. For all brokers using engine version 3.13 and above, Amazon MQ manages upgrades to the latest supported patch version during the maintenance window. For more information, see Upgrading an Amazon MQ broker engine version. Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ sizing guidelines have been updated to include new limits for queues, consumers per channel, and shovels for brokers using engine version 3.13. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the RabbitMQ 3.13 release notes For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
June 10, 2024 |
Amazon MQ is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region. For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference guide. |
May 10, 2024 |
The Amazon MQ version support calendar indicates when a broker engine version reaches end of support. When an engine version reaches end of support, Amazon MQ updates all brokers on the version to the next supported minor version automatically. Amazon MQ provides at least a 90 day notice before an engine version reaches end of support. To view the version support calendar and end of support, see the following: You can also enable automatic minor version upgrades for your broker to update to the next patch version during a maintenance window. For more information, see Upgrading an Amazon MQ broker engine version |
May 9, 2024 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ 3.12, a minor version release. All brokers on 3.12.13 and above use Classic Queues version 2 (CQv2), and all queues on 3.12.13 and above behave as lazy queues. We recommend brokers on versions prior to 3.12.13 enable CQv2 and lazy queues, or upgrade to the newest version of Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
March 4, 2024 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ 3.11.28. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
January 19, 2024 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ does not support the username "guest", and will delete the default guest account when you create a new broker. Amazon MQ will also periodically delete any customer created account called "guest". |
December 15, 2023 |
Amazon MQ is now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference guide. |
December 11, 2023 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ 3.10.25. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
October 26, 2023 |
Amazon MQ has released the latest ActiveMQ minor versions 5.15.16, 5.16.7, 5.17.6 with a critical update. We have deprecated the older minor versions of ActiveMQ and will be updating all brokers on any version of 5.15 to 5.15.16, or 5.16 to 5.16.7 and 5.17 to 5.17.6. For more information on updating your ActiveMQ broker, see Managing Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ engine versions. |
September 27, 2023 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ 3.11.20. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
July 27, 2023 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ 3.11.16 For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
July 27, 2023 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports creating and applying configurations to your RabbitMQ broker. For more information on adding confgurations to your broker, see RabbitMQ Broker Configurations. For more information about this feature, see: |
June 23, 2023 |
Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.17.3, a new minor engine version release. This release supports the new cross-Region data replication (CRDR) feature from Amazon MQ. For more information, see the following:
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June 21, 2023 |
Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ now offers a cross-Region data replication (CRDR) feature that allows for asynchronous message replication from the primary broker in a primary AWS Region to the replica broker in a replica Region. If the primary broker in the primary Region fails, you can promote the replica broker in the secondary Region to primary by initiating a switchover or failover. To get started with CRDR, see Cross-Region data replication for Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ in the Developer Guide. |
May 18, 2023 |
Amazon MQ is now available in the following regions:
For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference guide. |
April 14, 2023 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.9.27. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
April 14, 2023 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.10.20. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
March 31, 2023 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ has disabled RabbitMQ engine version 3.10.17 The Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ team, and the open source maintainers of RabbitMQ, have identified an
issue with the RabbitMQ management console For more information on available Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions, see Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
March 1, 2023 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.10.17. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
February 21, 2023 | Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now integrates with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to offer server-side encryption. You can now select your own customer managed CMK, or use an AWS managed KMS key in your AWS KMS account. For more information, see Encryption at rest. Amazon MQ supports using AWS KMS keys in the following ways.
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January 13, 2023 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.34. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
December 15, 2022 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.9.24. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
December 13, 2022 |
Amazon MQ is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region. For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference guide. |
November 14, 2022 | Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports 3.10, a major engine version release. You can now enable classic Queues version 2 (CQv2) on your RabbitMQ queues. Direct updates from 3.8 to 3.10 are not supported. For more information, see the following: For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
November 9, 2022 | Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.17.2, a new minor engine version release. For more information, see the following: |
August 17, 2022 | Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.17.1, a new major engine version release. For more information, see the following: |
July 14, 2022 | Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.16.5, a minor engine version release. For more information, see the following: |
May 4, 2022 |
Amazon MQ adds inclusive language for |
April 25, 2022 |
Amazon MQ This release adds the
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April 20, 2022 | Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.16.4, a minor engine version release. For more information, see the following: |
March 1, 2022 |
Amazon MQ is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference guide. |
February 25, 2022 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.27. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
February 16, 2022 |
Amazon MQ is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference guide. |
February 14, 2022 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.9.13. Automatic minor version upgrades cannot be used to upgrade from Rabbit 3.8 to 3.9. To do so, manually upgrade your broker. For more information on new features introduced in RabbitMQ 3.9, see the
release notes page for version 3.9.0 Note
Currently, Amazon MQ does not support streams For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
February 07, 2022 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ introduces new broker metrics, allowing you to monitor average resource utilization across all three nodes in a cluster deployment. For more information, see the following: |
January 18, 2022 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.26. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
January 13, 2022 |
Amazon MQ introduces the |
January 6, 2022 |
When you configure CloudWatch Logs for Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ brokers, Amazon MQ supports using the |
December 20, 2021 |
Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ introduces a set of new metrics, allowing you to monitor the maximum number of connections you can make to your broker using different supported transport protocols, as well as an additional new metric that allows you to monitor the number of nodes connected to your broker in a network of brokers. For more information, see the following. |
November 16, 2021 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.23. For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions. |
October 12, 2021 | Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.16.3, a minor engine version release. For more information, see the following: |
September 8, 2021 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.22.
This release includes a fix for an issue with queues using per-message TTL (time to live) For more information about the fixes and features in this release, see the following:
For more information about supported Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versions and broker upgrades, see Managing Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ engine versions |
August 25, 2021 | Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ has temporarily disabled RabbitMQ engine version 3.8.17 due to an issue identified with
queues using per-message time-to-live (TTL) |
July 29, 2021 | Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.17. For more information about the fixes and features contained in this update, see the following:
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July 16, 2021 | You can now adjust the maintenance window of an Amazon MQ broker using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or the Amazon MQ API. To learn more about broker maintenance windows, see the following. |
July 6, 2021 | Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ introduces support for the Consistent Hash exchange type. Consistent Hash exchanges route messages to queues based on a hash value calculated from the routing key of a message. For more information, see the following:
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June 7, 2021 | Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.16.2, a new major engine version release. For more information, see the following: |
May 26, 2021 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ is now available in the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions. For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints. |
May 18, 2021 |
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ implements broker defaults. When you first create a broker, Amazon MQ creates a set of broker policies and vhost limits based on the instance type and deployment mode you choose, in order to optimize the broker's performance. For more information, see the following: |
May 5, 2021 | Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.15.15. For more information, see the following: |
May 5, 2021 |
Amazon MQ started tracking changes to AWS managed policies. For more information, see the following: |
April 14, 2021 |
Amazon MQ is now available in the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions. For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints. |
April 7, 2021 | Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ 3.8.11. For more information about the fixes and features contained in this update, see the following:
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April 1, 2021 |
Amazon MQ is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. For information about available regions, see Amazon MQ regions and endpoints. |
December 21, 2020 | Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.15.14. For more information, see the following:
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November 4, 2020 | Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ manages both individual and clustered message brokers and handles tasks like provisioning the infrastructure, setting up the broker, and updating the software.
To get started with using Amazon MQ, create a broker, and connect a JVM-based application to your RabbitMQ broker, see Getting started: Creating and connecting to a RabbitMQ broker. |
October 22, 2020 | Amazon MQ supports ActiveMQ 5.15.13. For more information, see the following: |
September 30, 2020 |
Amazon MQ is now available in the Europe (Milan) Region. For information about available regions, see Amazon MQ regions and endpoints. |
July 27, 2020 |
You can authenticate Amazon MQ users using the credentials stored in your Active Directory or other LDAP server. You can also add, delete, and modify Amazon MQ users and assign permissions to topics and queues. For more information, see Integrate LDAP with ActiveMQ. |
July 17, 2020 | Amazon MQ now supports the |
June 30, 2020 | Amazon MQ supports ActiveMQ 5.15.12. For more information, see the following: |
April 30, 2020 |
Amazon MQ supports a new child collection element,
Amazon MQ also supports three new attributes on the
For more information, see Attributes. |
March 3, 2020 | Amazon MQ supports two new CloudWatch metrics
For more information, see Monitoring and logging Amazon MQ brokers. |
February 4, 2020 | Amazon MQ is available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints. |
January 22, 2020 | Amazon MQ supports ActiveMQ 5.15.10. For more information, see the following: |
December 19, 2019 | Amazon MQ is available in the Europe (Stockholm) and South America (São Paulo) regions. For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints. |
December 16, 2019 | Amazon MQ supports creating throughput-optimized brokers by using Amazon Elastic Block Store
(EBS)—instead of the default Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)—for broker
storage. To take advantage of high durability and replication across multiple Availability Zones, use Amazon EFS.
To take advantage of low latency and high throughput, use Amazon EBS. Important
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October 18, 2019 |
Two Amazon CloudWatch metrics are available: |
October 11, 2019 | Amazon MQ now supports Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS) compliant endpoints in U.S. commercial regions. For more information see the following: |
September 30, 2019 | Amazon MQ now includes the ability to scale your brokers by changing
the host instance type. For more information, see the
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August 30, 2019 |
You can now update the security groups associated with a broker, both
in the console and with |
July 22, 2019 | Amazon MQ integrates with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to offer server-side encryption. You can now select your own customer managed CMK, or use an AWS managed KMS key in your AWS KMS account. For more information, see Encryption at rest. Amazon MQ supports using AWS KMS keys in the following ways.
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June 19, 2019 | Amazon MQ is available in the Europe (Paris) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions. For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints. |
June 12, 2019 | Amazon MQ is available in the Canada (Central) region. For information on available regions, see AWS Regions and Endpoints. |
June 3, 2019 | Two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics are available:
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May 10, 2019 | Data storage for new |
April 29, 2019 | You can now use tag-based policies and resource-level permissions. For more information, see the following: |
April 16, 2019 | You can now retrieve information about broker engine and broker instance options using the REST API. For more information, see the following: |
April 8, 2019 | Amazon MQ supports ActiveMQ 5.15.9. For more information, see the following: |
March 4, 2019 | Improved the documentation for configuring dynamic failover and the
rebalancing of clients for a network of brokers. Enable dynamic failover by
configuring transportConnectors along with
networkConnectors configuration options. For more
information, see the following: |
February 27, 2019 | Amazon MQ is available in the Europe (London) Region in addition to the
following regions:
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January 24, 2019 | The default configuration now includes a policy to purge inactive destinations. |
January 17, 2019 | Amazon MQ |
December 19, 2018 | You can configure a series of Amazon MQ brokers in a network of brokers. For more information, see the following sections: |
December 11, 2018 | Amazon MQ supports ActiveMQ 5.15.8, 5.15.6, and 5.15.0.
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December 5, 2018 | AWS supports resource tagging to help track your cost allocation. You can tag resources when creating them, or by viewing the details of that resource. For more information, see Tagging resources. |
November 19, 2018 | AWS has expanded its SOC compliance program to include Amazon MQ as an
SOC compliant
service |
October 15, 2018 | |
October 2, 2018 | AWS has expanded its HIPAA compliance program to include Amazon MQ as a
HIPAA Eligible
Service |
September 27, 2018 | Amazon MQ supports ActiveMQ 5.15.6, in addition to 5.15.0. For more
information, see the following:
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August 31, 2018 |
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August 30, 2018 | Amazon MQ is available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region in addition to
the following regions:
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July 30, 2018 | You can configure Amazon MQ to publish general and audit logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. For more information, see Monitoring and logging Amazon MQ brokers. |
July 25, 2018 | Amazon MQ is available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and
Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions in addition to the following regions:
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July 19, 2018 | You can use AWS CloudTrail to log Amazon MQ API calls. For more information, see Logging Amazon MQ API calls using CloudTrail. |
June 29, 2018 | In addition to mq.t2.micro and mq.m4.large , the
following broker instance types are available for regular development,
testing, and production workloads that require high throughput:
For more information, see Broker instance types. |
June 27, 2018 | Amazon MQ is available in the US West (N. California) Region in addition to the
following regions:
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June 14, 2018 |
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June 7, 2018 | The Amazon MQ console supports German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Traditional Chinese. |
May 17, 2018 | The limit of number of users per broker is 250. For more information, see Users. |
March 13, 2018 | Creating a broker takes about 15 minutes. For more information, see Finish creating the broker. |
March 1, 2018 |
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January 10, 2018 |
The following changes affect the Amazon MQ console
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January 9, 2018 |
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November 28, 2017 | This is the initial release of Amazon MQ and the
Amazon MQ Developer Guide.
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