Quotas in Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ - Amazon MQ
BrokersData StorageAPI Throttling
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Quotas in Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ

This topic lists quotas within Amazon MQ. Many of the following quotas can be changed for specific Amazon accounts. To request an increase for a limit, see Amazon Service Quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. Updated limits will not be visible even after the limit increase has been applied. For more information on viewing current connection limits in Amazon CloudWatch, see Monitoring Amazon MQ brokers using Amazon CloudWatch.

Brokers

The following table lists quotas related to Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ brokers.

Limit Description
Broker name

  • Must be unique in the broker region and your Amazon account.

  • Must be 1-50 characters long.

  • Must contain only characters specified in the ASCII Printable Character Set.

  • Can contain only alphanumeric characters, dashes, periods, underscores, and tildes (- . _ ~).
Number of brokers, per region 50
Security groups per broker 5
ActiveMQ destinations (queues, and topics) monitored in CloudWatch CloudWatch monitors only the first 1000 destinations.
RabbitMQ destinations (queues) monitored in CloudWatch CloudWatch monitors only the first 500 destinations, ordered by number of consumers.
Tags per broker 50

Data Storage

The following table lists quotas related to Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ data storage.

Limit Description
Storage capacity per smaller broker 20 GB for mq.*.micro instance type brokers. For more information regarding Amazon MQ instance types, see Broker instance types.
Storage capacity per larger broker 200 GB for mq.*.*large instance type brokers. For more information regarding Amazon MQ instance types, see Broker instance types.

API Throttling

The following throttling quotas are aggregated per Amazon account, across all Amazon MQ APIs to maintain service bandwidth. For more information about Amazon MQ APIs, see the Amazon MQ REST API Reference.

Important

These quotas don't apply to Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ or Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ broker messaging APIs. For example, Amazon MQ doesn't throttle the sending or receiving of messages.

API burst limit API rate limit
100 15