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Queue manager sizes - AWS

Learn about the characteristics of IBM® MQ queue managers available to deploy on AWS.

Queue manager sizes

IBM MQ as a Service offers the following queue manager sizes:

  • Extra Small: Appropriate for very light or occasional workloads with modest throughput requirements.
  • Small: Appropriate for light workloads such as supporting an individual department or application.
  • Medium: Appropriate for shared use by a number of light to moderate workload applications.
  • Large: Appropriate for heavy throughput scenarios where transaction performance is critical.

Queue manager resources

The following table provides information about the resources available to each queue manager size.

  Extra Small Small Medium Large
VPC 0.5 1 2 4
Memory (RAM GB) 1 1 2 4
Disk Size (GB) 20 20 40 40