Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review I think Leanplum is great for any company that needs to use push notification to drive revenue or KPI growth. I often find that it can be very costly to integrate analytics solutions & also build good reporting from the data. Leanplum provides a lot of great analytics & reporting right out of the box, especially around push events. This makes it much easier for the managing marketing user to optimize campaigns and increase their team & company's KPIs.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review Viewing the history of a campaign. Leanplum shows exactly what a customer has been sent on which dates/times and due to which actions. AB Testing - allows us to see which messages are appreciated/opened more by which customers Team collaboration - we can see easily how recently a campaign or message was updated Read full review Cons 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. Read full review Ability to create User Stories with a predefined funnel of actions that will chain themselves Ability to tag users once they enter or leave specific segments Should show in a simple page the main KPIS that matter for all our games at once More granularity in granting access to subsets (not sharing everything per account) Read full review Usability 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.
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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
Read full review I was not a part of making the decision to use Leanplum over its competitors.
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review It helps us build the right features for our users with the help of A/B experimentation Re-engagement notifications help us keep company data metrics Read full review ScreenShots