Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ 4.3

Amazon MQ RabbitMQ 4.3 Support

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.3, introducing several enhancements and bug fixes:

• Quorum Queue Enhancements: Compaction, increased priority levels, native delayed retries, and graceful consumer timeouts.
• Priority Levels: Supports 32 strict priority levels compared to 2 in previous versions.
• Failed Message Handling: Automatically sets failed messages aside and retries delivery after a cooldown delay.
• Consumer Timeouts: Configured specific to the protocol, managed by RabbitMQ Policies.
• Deprecated Features: Transient non-exclusive queues, Global QoS, and Classic queues v1 storage are no longer supported.

What to do

• Select RabbitMQ 4.3 when creating a new broker using m7g instance type.
• Manage patch version upgrades automatically handled by Amazon MQ.

Source: AWS release notes

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