Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently we use SNS to deliver notifications across our infrastructure, including receiving email, email delivery responses, alarm notifications, etc.

Likelihood to Recommend

<div>Using SNS for any notification use case where available is the default and defacto solution. It directly integrates with SES to configure both incoming email and email delivery responses.</div><div>

</div><div>Additionally, any notifications, such as CloudWatch alarms, are a good use case for SNS topics and allow us to fan out delivery as needed (pagerduty, email, etc)

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SNS to send out emails and text notifications. The majority of our uses are to send out One Time Passwords through our online application process. SNS is an inexpensive and safe way to send out a high volume of these codes. SNS was also very straightforward to implement.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for transactional messages like OTPs. It's probably not well suited for a two-way messaging thread.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Amazon SNS service provides support to a wide variety of needs including critical events notification, monitoring hybrid mobile applications both on ios and android, time-sensitive information updates. We are in the process of scaling our projects to include Amazon SNS in business workflow systems to relay events among apps, move data between data stores or update records in billing systems.

The product is very useful in managing key event notifications. We also plan to use it for our customers to update them about our new features and critical outages. The scope of our use case is both for managing AWS backend events within the organizational workflows and also for notifications to our customers.

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a very versatile tool useful for both small and large-scale Amazon estates.

Our first use case was for applications monitoring and system alerts based on notifications triggered by predefined

thresholds. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) sent these notifications to specific users via email. It was

great for our initial foray into DevOps way back in 2010. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is now a lot better and can be used for a variety of use cases – one that we now use very widely is fanout where we use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) to replicate Production data into staging and training environments for AI/ML model training.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is incredible for setting up monitoring and alerting for your AWS estate when you are starting out. However, it has now grown significantly and is a feature complete messaging platform that can operate securely at scale. We use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) now significantly for clickstream analytics and training AI/ML models via fanout - a method to replicate Production data and send it directly into staging environments where new ML models can get trained.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used to use AWS SNS for sending text messages for transactional messages. Now I use SNS for sending alerts from our dashboards. SNS is very versatile and there are a lot of features you can use as well as benefits of setting up the subscriptions from the back end. We use Terragrunt to easily upload all our data

Likelihood to Recommend

I think that SNS is very well suited if you need to send emails or text messages in response to events. Whether you use lambda or Grafana or other alerting platforms where you can have an event trigger a message to go out to your team. I also have used SNS as a marketing platform tool where we simply use it to send text messages based on event-driven actions and also for batch messages

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for many purposes : Mainly to do monitoring and alerting. For instance we use it to send alerts via Microsoft teams using Webhooks. For others scenarios we use it to send messages to some specific APIs we have.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very useful when you need to setup http webhooks for some alerting or build more complex architectures using services like Lambda. The product will scale pretty well !

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for transactional messaging. Easy-enough to integrate. Seamless to run. Would love for SNS to also support OTT messaging platforms to reduce cost to us, and provide greater flexibility for our learners.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is well suited for applications built on event driven architecture. It makes it easy to log and track events in real time from the source to the destination. The permissions should be configured properly in order to use SNS else while implementing you can come across Access Denied errors. The dashboards are difficult to maintain to track the utilization.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon SNS to push notifications to customers for previously searched hotels through email and messages.

Likelihood to Recommend

We have been able to implement Amazon SNS very easily for our push notifications and solve our purpose pretty well. Scheduling various bursts is also very easy and works like a charm. We are not facing any issue with the product.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is well suited where you want to allow the user to subscribe to a topic and unsubscribe at their own will and they can choose how information is delivered to them.