Cost Optimization & FinOpsPart 16
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Amazon MQ Pricing: $700/Month Before Your First Message
Amazon MQ bills per broker instance hour — an mq.m5.large active/standby HA pair is ~$440/month before storage. Add EFS or EBS for the broker, and a typical production HA deployment lands at $700+/month with zero messages flowing. Use MQ only when AMQP, JMS, STOMP, MQTT, or OpenWire protocol compatibility is non-negotiable.