# Do coding agents recommend Amazon MSK? > Amazon MSK was chosen in 1% of 588 judged message queues sessions, ranking number 14. Measured with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build CLI and Muse Code. Source: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-amazon-msk Published: 2026-09-24 Publisher: Armature, Inc. (https://armature.tech) --- > Amazon MSK was chosen in 1% of 588 judged message queues sessions, ranking number 14. It was also raised as a candidate in 155 further sessions without being chosen. This page reports what happened when Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build CLI and Muse Code had to solve a problem in message queues inside a realistic codebase. Not what a chat assistant says about Amazon MSK. What an agent actually installed. ## The numbers | | | | --- | --- | | Category | Message queues | | Sessions in the category | 588 | | Sessions where Amazon MSK was chosen | 8 | | Install share | 1% | | Rank in category | 14 of 29 | | Codebases it won in | 2 | | Raised as a candidate, not chosen | 155 | | Chosen when considered | 5% | | Site | aws.amazon.com | ## By agent With 8 wins spread across 5 agents, the rates below are small numbers and a difference between them is not yet a finding. They are here because the direction is worth knowing, not because the gap is established. | Agent | Sessions | Chose Amazon MSK | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Claude Code | 138 | 0 | 0% | | Codex | 144 | 3 | 2% | | Cursor | 134 | 4 | 3% | | Grok Build CLI | 35 | 0 | 0% | | Muse Code | 137 | 1 | 1% | ## By who was asking Amazon MSK performs similarly across the four kinds of buyer, from 0% to 6%. That is unusual: the category leader changed with the persona in 22 of the 29 categories we measured. | Who is asking | Sessions | Chose Amazon MSK | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Vibe coder | 96 | 0 | 0% | | Junior developer | 195 | 1 | 1% | | Senior engineer | 99 | 6 | 6% | | Enterprise team | 198 | 1 | 1% | ## What Amazon MSK was up against The full ranking in message queues, from the same sessions: | # | Product | Runs won | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Built in-house (no product adopted) | 104 | 18% | | 2 | Apache Kafka | 78 | 13% | | 3 | Amazon SQS | 64 | 11% | | 4 | Service Bus | 49 | 8% | | 5 | Amazon Kinesis | 42 | 7% | | 6 | Laravel Queues | 40 | 7% | | 7 | Cloud Tasks | 38 | 6% | | 8 | Cloudflare Queues | 32 | 5% | ## What this means This is an integration problem, not a presence problem. Agents raised Amazon MSK in 155 sessions and chose it in 8, so it reaches the shortlist and then loses. Something at the last step is costing the session, and in our data that is usually a quickstart that does not run when pasted, documentation describing an interface that changed, or a package name that does not match the product name. That is the cheaper of the two problems to have. The reason is written down in each losing transcript. ## Where these numbers come from The 588 sessions in message queues are part of a published set of 13,497, run with real coding agents inside realistic codebases and judged blind. The full method is on one page: [how we measured this](/library/how-we-measured-this). Every message queues run can be replayed on [the board](/leaderboards/message-queues). If you work on Amazon MSK: the judge recorded a reason for every session where it was raised and passed over. Those reasons are in the transcripts. ## Common questions ### Do coding agents recommend Amazon MSK? Yes. Amazon MSK was chosen in 8 of the 588 judged sessions in message queues, a 1% install share, ranking number 14 in its category. ### Does Claude Code recommend Amazon MSK? In 0 of the 138 sessions in message queues run with Claude Code, which is 0%. ### Do different coding agents treat Amazon MSK differently? Not much. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build CLI and Muse Code chose it at similar rates, between 0% and 3% of their runs. ### How was this measured? Real coding agents at pinned versions were run in sandboxes inside 91 realistic codebases and asked to solve real tasks. A simulated project owner approved or questioned each recommendation before any code was written, and a judge from a model family that builds none of the agents read every session blind. ### How often is Amazon MSK considered but not chosen? It was raised as a candidate in 155 sessions without being chosen, and chosen in 8. That is a 5% conversion from considered to chosen. ## Read next - [How to get picked for message queues by coding agents](https://armature.tech/library/message-queues-coding-agents-playbook) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/message-queues-coding-agents-playbook.md) - [Do coding agents recommend Apache Kafka?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-apache-kafka) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-apache-kafka.md) - [Do coding agents recommend Amazon SQS?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-amazon-sqs) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-amazon-sqs.md) - [Do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor pick the same tools?](https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree.md) --- Armature helps software products get discovered and used by coding agents. 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