RabbitMQ Consulting & Services

It starts with an assessment of the cluster you already run (topology, queue types, resource headroom, version and patch position) and ends with a written plan you could hand to another engineer. Between those, the work is whatever the assessment surfaces: a migration path, a capacity model, a performance fix, a high-availability redesign. Engagements are scoped to a specific outcome rather than sold as a block of hours, and the engineer who does the assessment stays on the work.

A named senior RabbitMQ engineer, not a tier-1 queue. Under a 24/7 support agreement a P1 gets a 15-minute response: a senior engineer joins your live bridge within 15 minutes, and you get a written root-cause analysis afterwards. When an escalation needs an answer that is not in the documentation, it goes to the RabbitMQ core team directly, because AceMQ is the Featured Authorized Partner named by that team.

It depends on the scope, so it is set on the intro call rather than published as a rate card. Most work fits one of three shapes: a health check (fixed scope, 1 to 4 weeks), a project such as an upgrade, migration or design (2 to 8 weeks), or an annual retainer that combines 24/7 support with consulting hours, sized to your estate and response commitment rather than seats. Every engagement is scoped to a written outcome, not sold as a block of hours.

Alongside, in most engagements. The common pattern is a team that runs RabbitMQ competently but hits something outside its experience (a migration, a scaling wall, a failure mode nobody has seen before) and wants an expert beside them rather than an outsourcing contract. We also run the platform outright where a team has no RabbitMQ specialist to spare. Both are normal; the assessment usually makes clear which one you need.

Yes, we specialize in zero-downtime migrations from platforms like ActiveMQ, Kafka, or legacy systems to modernized RabbitMQ instances.

Ask three things. Who will actually do the work: the person on the sales call, or someone you have not met? What happens when a problem needs an answer that is not in the documentation, because that is where general-purpose consultancies stop. And can they show production engagements at your scale rather than reference architectures. AceMQ is VMware Expert Advantage Partner of the Year, 2025, and the only RabbitMQ partner with a direct line to the core team that builds the software.

We aren't just resellers. We provide comprehensive architectural reviews, custom enterprise-grade support, and dedicated scaling strategies tailored to your exact use case.

Both, in most cases. Keep in-house engineers for the daily operation they already understand, and bring a partner in for the things that happen once: a major upgrade, a migration off classic mirrored queues, a scaling wall, a failure mode nobody on the team has seen. The partner should leave a written plan your team can run. Outsourcing the whole platform makes sense only when there is no RabbitMQ specialist to spare, and the assessment at the start of an engagement usually makes clear which situation you are in.

If you run RabbitMQ in production and need someone accountable for it, yes. AceMQ is VMware Expert Advantage Partner of the Year, 2025, Broadcom's exclusive strategic RabbitMQ MSP partner, and the only RabbitMQ partner with a direct line to the core team that builds the software. Coverage runs from 3.8.x to 4.x, P1 response is 15 minutes, and the work spans 160+ enterprise clients in 26+ countries. If you only need a licence and have your own engineers, the licensing page explains what a licence does and does not buy.

Absolutely. We have extensive experience tailoring RabbitMQ deployments for strict compliance and data security requirements in finance, healthcare, and government sectors.

AMQP 0-9-1 is the primary messaging protocol, with AMQP 1.0 now mature. RabbitMQ also speaks MQTT, STOMP, WebSocket and HTTP through plugins, so it fits IoT and browser clients alongside conventional backend services. Ports 5672 and 5671 carry AMQP in plaintext and TLS respectively.

The open-source project moved to Broadcom through its VMware acquisition, and Broadcom sells the commercial distribution as Tanzu RabbitMQ through the Broadcom support portal. The core software remains open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. AceMQ is Broadcom's exclusive strategic RabbitMQ MSP partner, with direct access to the RabbitMQ core team.