Amazon MQ now supports in-place major version upgrades for RabbitMQ 4

Amazon MQ ยท 2026-05-05

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Technical Details

Affected Versions 3.13, 4.2
Regions all
Breaking Change Yes
Migration Required Yes
Cost Impact Neutral
IaC Impact High

What This Means

For DevOps Teams

Update your RabbitMQ brokers to version 4.2 using the new in-place upgrade feature, ensuring brokers run on M7G instances and do not use classic mirrored queues, to leverage the latest RabbitMQ capabilities while preserving configurations.

For Platform Teams

Adopt the in-place upgrade feature for RabbitMQ to streamline broker management, reduce toil, and enable quick adoption of the latest RabbitMQ versions with preserved configurations and data.

For Executives

Evaluate the new in-place upgrade capability for RabbitMQ 4 to reduce operational toil and simplify broker management, leading to increased efficiency and cost savings from minimized downtime during upgrades.

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