# Distributed Bus

## Distribution

Distribution Bus is [Message Gateway](/messaging/messaging-concepts/messaging-gateway.md) just like **CommandBus** or **EventBus**.\
It creates smooth and elegant way for explicit communication between Applications (Services) without introducing any hassle and requirements for doing configurations, bindings and mappings.\
It make it easy for Developers to build integrations and maintain them in the long-term.

Read more in given Module section.

## Support

To find out more, read section related to specific implementation of Distributed Bus:

* [Distributed Bus with Service Map](/modelling/microservices-php/distributed-bus/distributed-bus-with-service-map.md) - Works with (RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, Redis, Dbal, Kafka, Symfony Message Channels, Laravel Queues)
* [RabbitMQ Distributed Bus](/modelling/microservices-php/distributed-bus/amqp-distributed-bus-rabbitmq.md) - Works with RabbitMQ only


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