Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) vs. PushEngage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon SNS
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Amazon 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.
$0.01
per 1 million
PushEngage
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
PushEngage offers a proactive push notification service, supporting abandoned cart triggering, dynamic segmentation, automatic responders, and advanced analytics, as well as other features.
$0
2,500 subscribers
Pricing
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)PushEngage
Editions & Modules
API Requests & Payload Data
$0.01
per 1 million
API Requests
$0.50
per 1 million requests
Notification Deliveries
$0.50
per million notifications
Forever Free Plan
$0.00
2,500 subscribers
Business Plan
$29.00/Month
Up To 5,000 Subscribers
Premium Plan
$59.00/Month
Up To 10,000 Subscribers
Enterprise Plan
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Up To Unlimited Subscribers
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon SNSPushEngage
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
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Score 7.8 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka
Score 8.4 out of 10
Intercom
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Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)PushEngage
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(24 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(11 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(14 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)PushEngage
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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PushEngage
It is appropriate to send notifications through rss. It is less appropriate to send urgent notifications, it takes a long time to get the notification to users.
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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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PushEngage
  • Supports sending to many users.
  • Allows the sending of different notifications to two different segments.
  • Allows user segmentation.
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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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PushEngage
  • Notifications take a long time to reach users.
  • The platform interface could improve.
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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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PushEngage
The platform and analytics are slightly confusing.
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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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PushEngage
The support was efficient and fast to resolve doubts.
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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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PushEngage
No answers on this topic
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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PushEngage
  • Due to the time it takes for notifications to arrive, the opportunity is lost in some publications we do.
  • With the notifications we have been able to reach more users.
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ScreenShots

PushEngage Screenshots

Screenshot of Dynamic Segmentation: Sending notifications based on customer action is now possible using PushEngage. Create a drip campaign/series of notifications to increase your conversions, leads or click metrics.Screenshot of A/B Testing: Stop wondering on what would make your subscribers happy. Send different notifications to the same target group and analyze, which notification performs better. Use the Right Combination by experimenting with different text for title, message. Use different timings and find out what suits your subscribers.Screenshot of Drip Autoresponder: Sending notifications based on customer action is now possible using PushEngage. Create a drip campaign/series of notifications to increase your conversions, leads or click metrics.Screenshot of Cart Abandonment Campaign: Set auto-trigger for an abandoned cart with a single click. Send custom notifications to your customers.Screenshot of Subscription Dialogbox: Settings of Subscription DialogboxScreenshot of Send Notification: Sample notification that was send using PushEngage in the dashboard.