Amazon MQ broker is using Single-instance deployment mode

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Amazon MQ broker is using Single-instance deployment mode

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Informational (4)

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Compliance Frameworks

NIST 800-53
Orca Best Practices

Description

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that allows setting up and operating message brokers. It was detected that MQ broker {AwsMqBroker} is using Single-instance deployment mode, therefore the broker is not configured for high availability.

Recommended Mitigation

It is recommended to use Active/standby deployment mode for broker engine from type ActiveMQ, and Cluster deployment for broker engine from type RabbitMQ. For more information: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/active-standby-broker-deployment.html or https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/rabbitmq-broker-architecture-cluster.html

Amazon MQ broker is using Single-instance deployment mode

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