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September 20, 2020
The main use for Amazon Simple Notification Service within our organization is to allow our different products communicate in a subscription based communication paradigm. We are able to share state information across servers in a notification style which reduces the number of consecutive pulls or checking a common resource to allow our infrastructure to scale at need.
- View and manage topics.
- Allow product inter-communication.
- Easy to get up and running.
- Bridge between different technologies/stacks used.
- Reporting available is good, but there are always room to grow.
- Analytics on message origin would be beneficial.
- Message size limit increase.
September 17, 2020
It is basically used as a filtration system by some of our clients that sell on Amazon. The system allows them to subscribe to specific types of Amazon messages that are applicable to them and then sends them notifications for those relatable messages. It helps save them time by cutting through all of the unnecessary, unapplicable information and gets them what they need in a quick and easy process.
- Filtration of information.
- Streamlines messages and important information.
- Order information notification typically for clients sold products.
- 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.
September 17, 2020
We use the simple notification services extensively for team in Client Service to Development and Operations, as events are collected and metrics evaluated across the entire VPC. Amazon simple notification is primarily used with the DevOps staff for managing activity by cloudwatch events, to be sent via configured topics for SNS to all department members.
- 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.
- Add more console support for better graphical support.
- Can be hard to configure and may take many test example to even out alerts.
- Limitation on how many relays so may need external sms or other provider to save a bit more.
October 01, 2020
We have used Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) for creating applications which make use of events. With help of SNS it is easy to track events with their timestamp when they originated and how they were used. It is very essential and it makes it easy to use as SNS can help in logging the inbound and outbound events.
- Improved Logging
- Easy to use
- Helps to keep track of events
- Pricing
- If permissions are not configured properly it will give access denied
- Dashboards are difficult to implement
Amazon SNS is being used to deliver notifications to users. We started with custom software where users could subscribe to certain topics and get information in a timely manner. It solved the problem of trying to keep track of everything that is going on around using different forms of communication. This way, we centralized it.
- Easy to use
- Easy to set up
- Easy to integrate
- We didn't really find a place where it wasn't useful.
September 21, 2020
Amazon SNS is being used as part of a queuing solution for our company. It is a simple, highly available queuing backend with libraries for many languages, allowing interoperability between various teams. It provides an efficient fan-out service for distributing work and communicating requests between services. It provides convenient endpoints for email and web services.
- Simple to implement/use
- Lots of libraries
- Web hook endpoints make communication easy to implement.
- Recipient boilerplate
- Better filtered fan-out
- Better docs
September 20, 2020
It is used by the application. We use it mostly to send SMS to our users!
- SMS
- Push Notifications
- Simple API
- Push Notifications due to multiple providers
September 18, 2020
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is being used to send SMS notifications to specific employees within the organization in case of any event via an alert management system. Amazon SNS is being used by the Central System monitoring Team to get a timely notification on their mobile devices about any issue in the system. Before using SNS, we have to make a call to each employee manually to notify them about the issue in case we need to inform them during out of office hours.
- Notification delivery to different geographies via multiple providers.
- Cost effective as compared to other vendors.
- You can track delivery of notifications as well.
- Can provide a more advanced user intuitive system to be used for notification delivery.
- Language options could be extended.
- Within transaction messages further classification option should be given.
September 15, 2020
Amazon SNS is used to communicate simple notifications across different scenarios, using emails and SMS. It addresses the problem of notifying different states for example in cloud instances, so we don't need to check each one manually. Also, it is very easy to integrate into your workflow, as it communicates fluently with other AWS Services.
- Simple
- Easy
- Good Integration
- Hard to debug
- Email format
- Weak dashboard
- Proprietary API
September 12, 2020
My team is using SNS as a way to pass messages back and forth between our billing systems and end user products. We send account/subscription messages on create and update and our products send usage messages that we subscribe to via SQS and process usage into our billing system.
- SNS is extremely reliable.
- SNS with SQS provides a safe place for messages in the event our services are ever down.
- SNS is easy to configure and subscribe to.
- For our use cases SNS completely fills our needs.
We use it as part of our mobile learning app to send transactional messages to learners to start a module. It allows us to reach learners without an email address and reduces user friction of needing to remember a login and password, or 'not getting round' to the email notification to begin their learning.
- Relatively simple to integrate in-app.
- Fuss-free for user once implemented.
- Pay-per-use
- No clear indication that transactional messages are sent as multiple SMSs (increased cost).
- No 'dashboard' to easily see metrics at a glance or deep-dive if more info required.
September 22, 2020
We use Amazon SNS to push notifications to customers for previously searched hotels through email and messages.
- Scheduling and sending messages is very easy
- Subscription and One-on-One option
- Booked Hotel Details are sent very fast
- First time setup can take a lot of time.
- Sometimes there is high latency in sending messages, leading to less impact against expected.
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is used across the organization. We are using for APNS and topic subscription. It is also used as a centralized messaging system in our organization to send SMS, Emails, Push Notifications, etc.
- Simple to use
- Easy to integrate
- AWS integration difficult for naive users
- Not Open Source
February 05, 2020
We use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) within several serverless applications to create and manage both human-read and service-read notifications as a part of our internal automation workflows. One of these applications uses Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) notifications to notify a dashboard interface when there are status changes in a queue process that places ad campaign listings on different platforms. Success and failure messages can be triggered and display in realtime.
- Integrates with Lambda and SQS to allow for sophisticated serverless applications.
- It can be used to support any combination of email, push, or even SMS notifications.
- E-mail and SMS notifications aren't all that customizable, meaning this won't be a good solution for consumer-facing notifications.
- The opt-in process for e-mail and SMS notifications is cumbersome.
October 21, 2019
We use SNS to send notifications across services to communicate with each other. We use SNS across all the departments which are consuming AWS. We solve multiple problems through SNS as mentioned below:
- To notify the stack holder when build and deployment is completed.
- To check and report environment health.
- Call consumers when all async producers finish their jobs.
- To send Push notifications.
- It is extremely easy and powerful service to send message across different Amazon services. To create the topic, subscriber and post notification is just natural. It requires almost zero learning curve.
- It is a managed services. So there is no need to worry about scaling. It can work with extreme heavy volume easily without taking any special care.
- It allows 256KB for published notification. Also this is divided into 4 chunks of 64 KB. Each 64KB chunk is considered as 1 request and full payload with 256KN is considered as 4 requests. This keeps your bill lower.
- It does not have sufficient debug options. The only way is to subscribe for email to receive errors.
- It is difficult to format email. To support dynamic formatting, developer needs to write extra code which can be simplified.
July 01, 2019
It is used within our team(Mobile/Iot Development) to notify us developers in case anything within our AWS account needs attention. The primary target of most of our notifications is an email to the developers, whereas sometimes we do trigger Lambda functions using SNS.
- Multiple mediums for notifications like email, HTTP, Lambda etc
- Easy to set up the pub sub model
- Debugging is difficult
January 26, 2019
The engineering and data teams at my organization use Amazon SNS for two purposes. The first is to create simple notifications for non-emergency alerts. It is easy to configure a CloudWatch alarm, create an SNS topic, and subscribe some email addresses to the topic. The second purpose is to use topics and pub/sub messaging to decouple micro-services. AWS Lambda has an SNS trigger; it is easy to build functions and invoke them when events are published.
- The AWS Lambda SNS trigger is great. Subscribing multiple Lambda functions to an SNS topic is a nice way to decouple features.
- SNS is fully-managed. Our team is too small to manage our own pub/sub infrastructure.
- Subscribing email endpoints to SNS topics and integrating topics with CloudWatch alerts is very easy; we create more non-emergency notifications than we would without SNS.
- The SNS Console has not been updated in a long time, and it was confusing to begin with.
- Testing systems that use SNS end-to-end can be tricky; LocalStack somewhat ameliorates this problem.
- Debugging is difficult.
Almost on all projects where we use AWS services, we use Amazon SNS. It helps us to respond faster for some APIs, or for processes that do not need to be asynchronous.
- Easy to integrate with other AWS solutions.
- Relatively easy setup.
- Better UI design.
October 17, 2018
Amazon SNS is an incredibly useful service. In my previous organizations, we used it as an easy way to get a notification service set up with our users without having to manage any servers or additional resources. The messages are incredibly inexpensive and cost close to nothing. I only know that it was being used in my sector for sure, however, I am confident that it was being used all across the organization as well. It was the only available service that could solve our email/SMS notification needs with available scaling, cost savings, and ease of use for our employees and customers.
- Super simple setup and deployment. You can have a new service set up within minutes and in a serverless environment as well
- Well documented and incredibly easy to use. There are available APIs in almost every relevant language and are all well documented by AWS. Getting any team up to date on their new Notification architecture shouldn't take longer than a day.
- Being managed by AWS themselves makes the service highly available in every possible way. Your SNS deployment is almost guaranteed to never go down without you ever lifting a finger to make it so.
- The AWS website UI could use some definite improvement. The website itself is very clunky and hard to navigate and always seems to have the wrong information in the wrong places. It is a monstrous task trying to make a website as complicated as AWS look simple and easy to navigate but even with some minor improvements it would become much more user and beginner friendly.
- Troubleshooting can be very difficult when encountering an issue with SNS and often many AWS services. By having all of your infrastructure in the cloud, it makes troubleshooting networking problems quite complicated. On top of this, aws provides little return information when a message fails to send, leaving a lot of guesswork to be done on your part to fix the issue.
September 14, 2018
Amazon SNS is being used by my organization for all push notification services for both iOS and Android. We have been using it for all marketing-related push notifications as well as trigger-based push notifications in order to inform our users of promotions we're running or information about their upcoming bus trip they have planned.
- Allows you to send test push notification messages from console easily
- Straightforward integration into the codebase
- Easy integration/easy to maintain if already part of AWS ecosystem
- Testing on different environments was a challenge to setup. Unclear how it's really supposed to work.
- Mobile device tokens get disabled easily during testing making the push notification testing process fail silently.
- SMS Delivery setup procedures not as straightforward.
Amazon SNS Scorecard Summary
What is Amazon SNS?
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.
Categories: Push Notifications, Message Oriented Middleware
Amazon SNS Pricing
- Does not have featureFree Trial Available?No
- Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
- Does not have featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?No
- Entry-level set up fee?No
| Edition | Pricing Details | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| API Requests | 0.50 | per 1 million requests |
| Notification Deliveries | 0.50 | per million notifications |
| API Requests & Payload Data | 0.01 | per 1 million |
Amazon SNS Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems: | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application: | No |