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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