Amazon MQ Supports Throughput-Optimized Brokers Using Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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

• You can use Amazon EBS only with the mq.m5 broker instance type family.
• Although you can change the broker instance type, you can't change the broker storage type after you create the broker.
• Amazon EBS replicates data within a single Availability Zone and doesn't support the active/standby deployment mode.

For more information, see the following in the Amazon MQ Developer Guide:

• Broker Storage
• Choose the Correct Broker Storage Type for the Best Throughput
• BurstBalance, VolumeReadOps, and VolumeWriteOps metrics in the Broker Metrics

See also the storageType property of the broker-instance-options resource in the Amazon MQ REST API Reference.