What purpose does Amazon MQ serve?

Amazon MQ is designed as a managed message broker service specifically tailored for microservices architectures. It facilitates the communication between different components of a distributed application by enabling them to transmit messages reliably. The service supports common messaging protocols such as Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ, which help ensure that microservices can interact in a decoupled manner, promoting scalability and fault tolerance.

By managing the underlying infrastructure, Amazon MQ simplifies the process for developers by eliminating the cumbersome tasks associated with setting up and maintaining message brokers. This allows teams to focus on building and deploying applications rather than managing the messaging infrastructure.

The other options pertain to different functionalities that do not align with the primary purpose of Amazon MQ. Data visualization, event logging, and batch processing are distinct services that address specific data handling requirements but do not involve the core messaging capabilities that Amazon MQ provides.