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Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.2

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This article announces Amazon MQ support for RabbitMQ version 4.2, which introduces significant protocol and queue management enhancements.

  • Native AMQP 1.0 protocol support with enhanced message handling features
  • New Khepri Raft-based metadata store for improved reliability
  • Message priorities now available for quorum queues
  • Local shovels and configurable resource limits for brokers
  • Performance improvements for throughput and memory management
  • Quorum queues are the only supported replicated queue type
  • Available on m7g instance types across all Amazon MQ regions

Amazon MQ now enables RabbitMQ 4.2 deployments with improved messaging capabilities, better resource management, and automatic patch updates.



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