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.
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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 Easy Integration Easy to Use Dashboard Free 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 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 There customer support is excellent and they are always available on whatsapp / chat / email / phone.
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 had more than 100k subscribers on my blog with another company but their paid plans were too expensive for a blog like mine. It has a very large audience base and most of the audience is from India. So I searched for various alternatives (at that time i think Truepush was not launched) and find some good one which had comparatively cheaper plan with good service but within a year my subscriber base grown to 5 times of what it was with a previous company. That plan too become very expensive as the earning was not same every month due to changes in google algorithms and various other reasons. However it was very important to help students so I started searching for other alternatives. After trying many push providers, I was not happy with any of them. Then I ended my search when I found Truepush. After testing, checking their easy to use dashboard, analytics, push delivery and other functions, it took me just 10 minutes to decide that I was moving my Job Alert blog to Truepush. However there were definitely some doubts and some fears too as I had approximately 500k subscribers at that time. After chatting with Ravi (Co Founder Truepush) I felt confident and moved my blog. Now after two months of use, I can definitely say that I made the right decision as I never had any issue. The team at Truepush is always available to help me if I have any doubt. Thanks a lot to the team at Truepush for providing such an amazing product.
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 free Easy integration Read full review ScreenShots