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 TextMagic is a wonderful solution for small businesses or non-profits just adding an SMS text service to their marketing outreach program. Very easy to set up and use. Customers seem to like SMS as a method of communication. Easily lets you keep in touch with them at a very nominal cost. Immediate feedback if they respond to your text on the dashboard through chat.
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 Employees can connect via text messages using two-way chat messages. Emails can be converted to text messages and sent as SMS. 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 Connection between other services ERP, CRM and slack. Textmagic is a tool for kids who want to SMS chat. The possibility to change the SMS provider to Twilio or others. It is not legal to forbid that but they find a way to bypass that. Read full review Likelihood to Renew I am very happy with how TextMagic is working. I don't see a reason to spend time searching for another solution when this works great at a good price. Customers have shown a good response to the text messages we have send. Very small percentage unsubscribed (but that was automated/easy).
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 It has been very easy to use TextMagic to set up. The calculator showing character count which relates to cost is easy to see and adjust. The scheduling portion is also easy to set up and edit if needed. You can see history to copy wording if you need to. I have suggested to other friends that do not have a text service.
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 TextMagic just worked. Where
Trello seemed like we needed to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it working, TextMagic was simple to set up. Everything seemed streamlined and easy to manage.
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's just a small part of our communications with employees but they appreciate it very much! It is a very cost effective communications tool. There is no negative impact. I just need to remember to update the contact lists with any employee changes. Read full review ScreenShots