[Nextgrid]

The AMQP protocol alone and its various, good client libraries (compared to terrible AWS SDK which is a very thin abstraction over just sending/parsing raw JSON off the wire) is by itself enough to justify RabbitMQ.

> when I need queueing functionality to increase my developer velocity so I can focus on building value rather than wasting my life installing, configuring and running anything on EC2.

SQS still requires configuration, which means you either need to use the (terrible) AWS console UI or spin up a whole Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK/etc stack, not to mention that merely connecting to it requires correctly setting up AWS IAM (so you don't use a key that gives access to your entire AWS account). Vim'ing the RabbitMQ config file in contrast doesn't seem so bad, and even just using a static hardcoded password means the worst an attacker can do is take down your queue instead of taking over your entire cloud infra.