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Messaging services on Azure and AWS

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Simple Email Service

AWS provides the Simple Email Service (SES) for sending notification, transactional, or marketing emails. In Azure, you can send emails with Azure Communication Services or third-party solutions, like SendGrid. Both of these options provide email services that can be incorporated into solutions to cater for various use cases.

Simple Queueing Service

AWS Simple Queueing Service (SQS) provides a messaging system for connecting applications, services, and devices within the AWS platform. Azure has two services that provide similar functionality:

  • Queue storage is a cloud messaging service that allows communication between application components within Azure.

  • Service Bus is a robust messaging system for connecting applications, services, and devices. By using the related Service Bus relay, Service Bus can also connect to remotely hosted applications and services.

Messaging components

AWS service Azure service Description
Simple Queue Service (SQS) Queue Storage Provides a managed message queueing service for communicating between decoupled application components.
Simple Notification Service (SNS) Service Bus Supports a set of cloud-based, message-oriented middleware technologies, including reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe messaging.
Amazon EventBridge Event Grid A fully managed event routing service that allows for uniform event consumption using a publish/subscribe model.
Amazon Kinesis Event Hubs A fully managed, real-time data ingestion service. Stream millions of events per second, from any source, to build dynamic data pipelines and to immediately respond to business challenges.
Amazon MQ Service Bus Service Bus Premium is fully compliant with the Java/Jakarta EE Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 API. Service Bus Standard supports the JMS 1.1 subset focused on queues.

Messaging architectures

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