diff --git a/component/mqtt/component.go b/component/mqtt/component.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2bf978ac6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/component/mqtt/component.go
@@ -0,0 +1,222 @@
+// Package mqtt provides an instrumented subscriber for MQTT v5.
+package mqtt
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"net/url"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/sqs"
+	"github.com/beatlabs/patron/correlation"
+	"github.com/beatlabs/patron/log"
+	"github.com/eclipse/paho.golang/autopaho"
+	"github.com/eclipse/paho.golang/paho"
+	"github.com/google/uuid"
+)
+
+const (
+	defaultRetries   = 10
+	defaultRetryWait = time.Second
+)
+
+type retry struct {
+	count uint
+	wait  time.Duration
+}
+
+type config struct {
+	maxMessages *int64
+}
+
+// DefaultConfig provides a config with sane default and logging enabled on the callbacks.
+func DefaultConfig(brokerURLs []*url.URL, clientID string, router paho.Router) (autopaho.ClientConfig, error) {
+	if len(brokerURLs) == 0 {
+		return autopaho.ClientConfig{}, errors.New("no broker URLs provided")
+	}
+
+	if clientID == "" {
+		return autopaho.ClientConfig{}, errors.New("no client id provided")
+	}
+
+	if router == nil {
+		return autopaho.ClientConfig{}, errors.New("no router provided")
+	}
+
+	return autopaho.ClientConfig{
+		BrokerUrls:        brokerURLs,
+		KeepAlive:         30,
+		ConnectRetryDelay: 5 * time.Second,
+		ConnectTimeout:    1 * time.Second,
+		OnConnectionUp: func(_ *autopaho.ConnectionManager, conAck *paho.Connack) {
+			log.Infof("connection is up with reason code: %d\n", conAck.ReasonCode)
+		},
+		OnConnectError: func(err error) {
+			log.Errorf("failed to connect: %v\n", err)
+		},
+		ClientConfig: paho.ClientConfig{
+			ClientID: clientID,
+			Router:   router,
+			OnServerDisconnect: func(disconnect *paho.Disconnect) {
+				log.Warnf("server disconnect received with reason code: %d\n", disconnect.ReasonCode)
+			},
+			OnClientError: func(err error) {
+				log.Errorf("client error occurred: %v\n", err)
+			},
+			PublishHook: func(publish *paho.Publish) {
+				log.Debugf("message published to topic: %s\n", publish.Topic)
+			},
+		},
+	}, nil
+}
+
+// Component implementation of an async component.
+type Component struct {
+	name  string
+	cm    *autopaho.ConnectionManager
+	cfg   autopaho.ClientConfig
+	sub   *paho.Subscribe
+	retry retry
+}
+
+type Subscription struct {
+	name    string
+	handler paho.MessageHandler
+	options paho.SubscribeOptions
+}
+
+// New creates a new component with support for functional configuration.
+func New(name string, cfg autopaho.ClientConfig, subs []Subscription, oo ...OptionFunc) (*Component, error) {
+	if name == "" {
+		return nil, errors.New("component name is empty")
+	}
+
+	if len(subs) == 0 {
+		return nil, errors.New("subscriptions is empty")
+	}
+
+	rt := &paho.StandardRouter{}
+	subscribe := &paho.Subscribe{
+		Subscriptions: make(map[string]paho.SubscribeOptions, len(subs)),
+	}
+
+	for _, sub := range subs {
+		// TODO: middleware for observability
+		rt.RegisterHandler(sub.name, sub.handler)
+		subscribe.Subscriptions[sub.name] = sub.options
+	}
+
+	cfg.Router = rt
+
+	cmp := &Component{
+		name: name,
+		cfg:  cfg,
+		sub:  subscribe,
+		retry: retry{
+			count: defaultRetries,
+			wait:  defaultRetryWait,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, optionFunc := range oo {
+		err := optionFunc(cmp)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+
+	return cmp, nil
+}
+
+// Run starts the consumer processing loop messages.
+func (c *Component) Run(ctx context.Context) error {
+	chErr := make(chan error)
+
+	go c.consume(ctx, chErr)
+
+	for {
+		select {
+		case err := <-chErr:
+			return err
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			log.FromContext(ctx).Info("context cancellation received. exiting...")
+			return nil
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (c *Component) consume(ctx context.Context, chErr chan error) {
+	logger := log.FromContext(ctx)
+
+	retries := c.retry.count
+
+	for {
+		if ctx.Err() != nil {
+			return
+		}
+
+		logger.Debug("consume: connecting to broker")
+
+		cm, err := autopaho.NewConnection(ctx, c.cfg)
+		if err != nil {
+			logger.Errorf("failed to create new connection: %v, sleeping for %v", err, c.retry.wait)
+			time.Sleep(c.retry.wait)
+			retries--
+			if retries > 0 {
+				continue
+			}
+			chErr <- err
+			return
+		}
+
+		sa, err := cm.Subscribe(ctx, c.sub)
+		if err != nil {
+			logger.Errorf("failed to subscribe: %v, sleeping for %v", err, c.retry.wait)
+			time.Sleep(c.retry.wait)
+			retries--
+			if retries > 0 {
+				continue
+			}
+			chErr <- err
+			return
+		}
+		logger.Debugf("subscription acknowledgment: %v", sa)
+
+		retries = c.retry.count
+
+		if ctx.Err() != nil {
+			return
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func messageCountInc(queue string, state messageState, hasError bool, count int) {
+	hasErrorString := "false"
+	if hasError {
+		hasErrorString = "true"
+	}
+
+	messageCounterVec.WithLabelValues(queue, string(state), hasErrorString).Add(float64(count))
+}
+
+func getCorrelationID(ma map[string]*sqs.MessageAttributeValue) string {
+	for key, value := range ma {
+		if key == correlation.HeaderID {
+			if value.StringValue != nil {
+				return *value.StringValue
+			}
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	return uuid.New().String()
+}
+
+func mapHeader(ma map[string]*sqs.MessageAttributeValue) map[string]string {
+	mp := make(map[string]string)
+	for key, value := range ma {
+		if value.StringValue != nil {
+			mp[key] = *value.StringValue
+		}
+	}
+	return mp
+}
diff --git a/component/mqtt/option.go b/component/mqtt/option.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a791b0da8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/component/mqtt/option.go
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package mqtt
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+)
+
+// OptionFunc definition for configuring the component in a functional way.
+type OptionFunc func(*Component) error
+
+// MaxMessages option for setting the max number of messages fetched.
+// Allowed values are between 1 and 10.
+// If messages can be processed very quickly, maxing out this value is fine, otherwise having a high value is risky as it might trigger the visibility timeout.
+// Having a value too small isn't recommended either, as it increases the number of SQS API requests, thus AWS costs.
+func MaxMessages(maxMessages int64) OptionFunc {
+	return func(c *Component) error {
+		if maxMessages <= 0 || maxMessages > 10 {
+			return errors.New("max messages should be between 1 and 10")
+		}
+		c.cfg.maxMessages = &maxMessages
+		return nil
+	}
+}
diff --git a/component/mqtt/option_test.go b/component/mqtt/option_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4d3e6583a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/component/mqtt/option_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package mqtt
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestMaxMessages(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	type args struct {
+		maxMessages *int64
+	}
+	tests := map[string]struct {
+		args        args
+		expectedErr string
+	}{
+		"success": {
+			args: args{maxMessages: aws.Int64(5)},
+		},
+		"zero message size": {
+			args:        args{maxMessages: aws.Int64(0)},
+			expectedErr: "max messages should be between 1 and 10",
+		},
+		"over max message size": {
+			args:        args{maxMessages: aws.Int64(11)},
+			expectedErr: "max messages should be between 1 and 10",
+		},
+	}
+	for name, tt := range tests {
+		tt := tt
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+			c := &Component{}
+			err := MaxMessages(*tt.args.maxMessages)(c)
+			if tt.expectedErr != "" {
+				assert.EqualError(t, err, tt.expectedErr)
+			} else {
+				assert.NoError(t, err)
+				assert.Equal(t, c.cfg.maxMessages, tt.args.maxMessages)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 3bd06c80c..d5d4f4394 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ services:
     image: localstack/localstack:0.14
     network_mode: bridge
     ports:
-      - "127.0.0.1:4510-4559:4510-4559"  # external service port range
-      - "127.0.0.1:4566:4566"            # LocalStack Edge Proxy
+      - "127.0.0.1:4510-4559:4510-4559" # external service port range
+      - "127.0.0.1:4566:4566" # LocalStack Edge Proxy
     environment:
       - SERVICES=sns,sqs
       - DEBUG=1
@@ -87,8 +87,6 @@ services:
         protocol: tcp
         mode: host
     environment:
-      HIVEMQ_CONTROL_CENTER_USER: 'admin'
-      HIVEMQ_CONTROL_CENTER_PASSWORD: '123456'
       HIVEMQ_CLUSTER_TRANSPORT_TYPE: 'TCP'
   mongo:
     image: mongo:5
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 31cd271f5..d01696d2d 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -109,12 +109,20 @@ github.com/golang/snappy
 # github.com/google/uuid v1.3.0
 ## explicit
 github.com/google/uuid
+<<<<<<< HEAD
 # github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.4.2
 github.com/gorilla/websocket
+=======
+<<<<<<< Updated upstream
+>>>>>>> 12900c42 (Temp)
 # github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.0.0
 github.com/hashicorp/errwrap
 # github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror v1.1.1
 github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror
+=======
+# github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.4.2
+github.com/gorilla/websocket
+>>>>>>> Stashed changes
 # github.com/hashicorp/go-uuid v1.0.2
 github.com/hashicorp/go-uuid
 # github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.4