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    Amazon SNS

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Web Services offers the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) which provides pub/sub messaging and push notifications to iOS and Android devices. It is meant to operate in a microservices architecture and which can support event-driven contingencies and support the decoupling of applications.

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    Editions & Modules
    API Requests & Payload Data
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    API Requests
    $0.50
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    Notification Deliveries
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    Amazon SNS
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Amazon SNS
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    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon SNS
    SNS is much cheaper and easier to integrate.
    Incentivized
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    Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is well integrated in AWS and has been there since the early days of public cloud. It is a cost effective and very inexpensive solution to meet the needs of event notifications and custom messaging. Wish to share that there is …
    Incentivized
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    Amazon’s SNS is incredibly easy to set up compared to the more powerful, but complex, Kafka flavours.
    Incentivized
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    I worked with Adobe Campaign 2 years ago and comparatively, SNS is way better and easier to integrate with. There's a lack of latency with SNS and better customer support. Easier to group with subscriptions and easier to work from the command line with the use of the SDK. All …
    Incentivized
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    No obvious difference. We chose AWS SNS, as we are an AWS EdStart company and built on the AWS stack already.
    Incentivized
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    SNS helps in integrating with other AWS components which are used in development such as Lambda, APIGW, S3 and DynamoDb easily. If used with third party software like PagerDuty, it makes the development and integration more complex. It is used mostly for publishing and …
    Incentivized
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    We use AWS and becasue Amazon SNS can be easily integrated with AWS.
    Incentivized
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    Amazon Simple Notification Service and PagerDuty have been used by various organizations. Amazon SNS is ideal if you're within an AWS environment. PagerDuty is used when we are working outside of Amazon Web Services. Though PagerDuty is more expensive than Amazon SNS they do …
    Incentivized
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    SNS is already integrated with other AWS services. I can reuse lists or topics.
    Incentivized
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    We have looked at other service providers, including the local service providers as well, but Amazon SNS stood ahead of all in terms of service availability across the globe and cost-effective plans per notification SMS. Moreover, we can also use Amazon SNS along with other AWS …
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    Common confusion between SNS and SQS. SNS directs information to its subscribers without any effort on the subscribers or individuals' end. SQS gathers the information and then the individual has to almost go find it. They do similar things but in a space where information can …
    Incentivized
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    We have opted ultimately for AWS SNS once configuration was set topics and subscriptions setup. Site 24 and US Monitor are considerations to this product, but incur cost outside of Amazon, so not best for starting up for our needs.
    Incentivized
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    The main reason we chose Amazon SNS is for easy integration with all the workflows in AWS. The other alternatives can be (and really are) best in specific points, but the main strength of SNS is that is one service of AWS, so we don't need to complicate things in our …
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    Our company prioritizes using AWS offerings unless there is a strong use case for using something within Azure. SQS is a similar service that solves different problems and we are using it in conjunction with SNS.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon SNS
    Our clients are mostly on AWS, so it was easy for us to use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and to integrate it with current applications.
    Incentivized
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    We use EC2 instances to train ML model against a heavy volume of data. When the model is trained (i.e. loss reduces to a certain level), we push notification to all the stakeholders to notify them the new model is available. To achieve it, SNS is the most simple and cost …
    Incentivized
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    We use a lot of services from AVS, and it's easy to set up all services between each other.
    Incentivized
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    Many products, including PagerDuty, can be used to notify stakeholders when alarms are triggered. SNS is only suitable for non-emergency email alerts, and integration with CloudWatch is its only advantage. If you want to be notified of an issue by email, SNS can be configured …
    Incentivized
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    SNS is much more customizable compared to SES and allows for many more delivery methods. While it is better for email-based notification services, not being able to send notifications via SMS limits your app functionality considerably. Being able to switch message delivery …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon SNS
    As I mentioned previously, I wish we had gone with a different service such as a Mixpanel or OneSignal as they are reputable in the space and are known for their strong support and documentation. AWS SNS was the way to go for us at the time we chose it due to the fact that we …
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    Best Alternatives
    Amazon SNS
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Confluent
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud Pub/Sub
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon SNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon SNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    The Amazon SNS service is well suited to support event notifications, monitoring applications, workflow systems, time-sensitive information updates, and mobile applications that generates or consumes notifications. It can be used to relay time-critical events to mobile applications and devices. It provides significant advantages to developers who build mobile applications that rely on real-time events. It is not well suited for hybrid cross platform mobile application frameworks at this juncture. An optimal version to meet the needs of a cross platform mobile developer is needed as generally the frameworks are not meant to manage real-time events. It is also not suited for cases where the queue management needs improvement or requires special workflows/tooling.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Built in for quicker setup within AWS ecosystem.
    • Trusted as you control the users and configuration via IAM and easy access controls.
    • Can be sent to S3 simple storage or for long term storage if required.
    • Can be used in many regions, same configs.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • At times you receive access denied errors which are annoying.
    • Rarely do you receive internal failure errors where you can't access the information. It is rare but it does happen.
    • You are required to add an MWS Authentication Token every so often. I wish it would pull that information automatically for you so you don't have to go searching for it.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    It is useful for applications developed using event driven architecture. It helps in tracking and logging the events in a very timely and efficient manner. The dashboards are a little difficult to implement. But overall it is very easy to integrate with other AWS services like Lambda, API GW, S3 and DynamoDB. The permissions to access should be resolved before using it.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon Simple Notification Sevices (SNS) support depends on your usage pattern and definitely on your support plan as an enterprise with AWS. Before reaching out to support you should read their documentation, as they have mentioned almost all the common issues and their solutions there. However, for specific issues, they generally respond in 1-2 business days.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon’s SNS is incredibly easy to set up compared to the
    more powerful, but complex, Kafka flavours.

    SNS’s core advantages are –

    · no setup/no maintenance

    · either a queue (SQS) or a topic (SNS)

    · various limitations (on size, how long a message lives, etc)

    · limited throughput: you can do batch and concurrent requests, but still
    achieving high throughputs would be expensive

    · SNS has notifications for email, SMS, SQS, HTTP built-in.

    · no "message stream" concept Overall, it would be the best choice to get into the concepts of Pub/Sub concepts as although it has limitations it can provide significant capabilities and solutions
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) saved us a lot of extra coding time by providing straightforward functionality we needed in our ad campaign automation tool.
    • Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) allows us to maintain a consistent, serverless model within our applications.
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