diff --git a/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.lock b/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.lock
--- a/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.lock
+++ b/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.lock
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  "memchr",
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+ "amq-protocol-uri",
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+ "rustix",
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+ "futures-io",
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+ "p12",
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 [[package]]
 name = "want"
 version = "0.3.0"
@@ -2972,6 +3439,12 @@
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "4d25c75bf9ea12c4040a97f829154768bbbce366287e2dc044af160cd79a13fd"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "yasna"
+version = "0.5.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e17bb3549cc1321ae1296b9cdc2698e2b6cb1992adfa19a8c72e5b7a738f44cd"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "zeroize"
 version = "1.6.0"
diff --git a/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.toml b/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.toml
--- a/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.16", features = ["env-filter"] }
 tunnelbroker_messages = { path = "../../shared/tunnelbroker_messages" }
 derive_more = "0.99.17"
+lapin = "2.2.1"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 tonic-build = "0.8"
diff --git a/services/tunnelbroker/src/amqp.rs b/services/tunnelbroker/src/amqp.rs
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/tunnelbroker/src/amqp.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+use crate::CONFIG;
+use lapin::{Connection, ConnectionProperties};
+use tracing::info;
+
+pub async fn connect() -> Connection {
+  let amqp_uri = format!("amqp://{}:{}", CONFIG.amqp_address, CONFIG.amqp_port);
+  let conn = Connection::connect(&amqp_uri, ConnectionProperties::default())
+    .await
+    .expect("Unable to connect to amqp endpoint");
+
+  info!("Connected to amqp endpoint: {}", &amqp_uri);
+
+  return conn;
+}
diff --git a/services/tunnelbroker/src/config.rs b/services/tunnelbroker/src/config.rs
--- a/services/tunnelbroker/src/config.rs
+++ b/services/tunnelbroker/src/config.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@
   /// HTTP server listening port
   #[arg(long, default_value_t = 51001)]
   pub http_port: u16,
+  /// AMQP server listening port
+  #[arg(long, default_value_t = 5672)]
+  pub amqp_port: u16,
+  /// AMQP server listening port
+  #[arg(long, default_value_t = String::from("localhost"))]
+  pub amqp_address: String,
   /// AWS Localstack service URL
   #[arg(env = "LOCALSTACK_ENDPOINT")]
   #[arg(long)]
diff --git a/services/tunnelbroker/src/main.rs b/services/tunnelbroker/src/main.rs
--- a/services/tunnelbroker/src/main.rs
+++ b/services/tunnelbroker/src/main.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+pub mod amqp;
 pub mod config;
 pub mod constants;
 pub mod database;
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@
   config::parse_cmdline_args()?;
   let aws_config = config::load_aws_config().await;
   let db_client = database::DatabaseClient::new(&aws_config);
+  let amqp_connection = amqp::connect().await;
 
   let grpc_server = grpc::run_server(db_client.clone());
   let websocket_server = websockets::run_server(db_client.clone());