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Summary, next steps, and additional resources for building messaging applications with IBM MQ on AWS Cloud

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Richard J. Coppen

Summary

Deploying messaging-based solutions to the cloud brings cost and scaling benefits. By using IBM MQ on AWS, you can integrate cloud best practices into your applications in these ways:

  • IBM MQ allows the server infrastructure to span data center, mainframe, and cloud frameworks.
  • IBM MQ enables applications to communicate and exchange data in a reliable and scalable way, which decouples one application from another.
  • IBM MQ asynchronous messaging allows your microservices to operate with different throughputs.
  • AWS allows your microservices to be scaled individually optimizing for cost and throughput.

In this learning path, you learned the core IBM MQ messaging concepts as applied to the cloud, then you deployed a queue manager to AWS Cloud, and finally you deployed, updated, and debugged a messaging-based application that interacts with the queue manager on AWS.

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Perhaps you're ready to deploy the IBM MQ Native HA partner solution on AWS. Maybe add additional features to the IBM MQ messaging playground sample app. Or, check out the doYouMQ? podcast, where senior experts at IBM sharing their thoughts on the vital role that MQ plays in enterprise messaging.