Amazon SNS

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

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.

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.

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

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 !

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.

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.

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.

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.

Push notifications of events occurring are the best scenario where Amazon Simple Notification Service is used within our stack. But because it can be integrated with different products, it does bridge the gap between different communication platforms we use. Though sometimes there are more elegant ways to accomplish this, SNS sometimes is the quickest way to move forward because we are already using it.

It is useful when you want to send a message directly to a phone number, or a message to multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone numbers to a topic and sending your message to the topic.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is best suited for scenarios where you need to programmatically manage the notifications based on rules or conditions. You can also interface it easily with any existing system and enable them to send notifications out to the user. If you do not have a need for programmatic management of your notifications and need a simple notification handler like marketing campaigns, then you can look for other options that are more user friendly.

It is a good system for getting information efficiently whether it is about orders or listing failures or updates. The service is designed to help streamline the process and allow you to get the necessary information quickly without having to go search for it on your end. I would recommend it to individuals that are selling on Amazon for sure.

Great on its own or in conjunction with other tools that integrate and allow grouping for better message distribution. It can be run programmatically via API, making it fully configurable to help drive your alerts in your custom application for machine to machine messaging (a nice bonus to this service that is fully managed).

Amazon SNS is suitable for every application, but you need to have in mind that the notifications you create should be useful for the receiver. I mean, you can create thousands of notifications, but if the reader is overwhelmed, none of them will be useful. So you need to measure the average volume that a person is ready to solve.

It works well for us because we have a number of different groups that are interested in updates and we don't want to be in charge of sending individual messages via API's or separate queues to each of those groups. They subscribe and filter to get the messages that they are interested in and it is extremely reliable.

Our customers that use AWS cloud services, it was easy for us to integrate Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). For the customers who use another cloud platform, it was difficult for us to integrate and manage with it.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) can be a powerful tool in a serverless toolbox. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is best suited for handling service-to-service notifications between different applications or steps in an existing serverless workflow. If you're using AWS services to handle different parts of your existing serverless application or workflow and you need a tool to facilitate reliable notifications, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) will handle that task very well.

When your entire infrastructure is part of Amazon ecosystem, this service will act as a common thread for communication. It provides simple pubsub way to make sure real time notification. It is extremely easy to send notifications via SMS, email and Push Notifications. When async processes are running and you want to notify some other services, this service becomes first choice by default.
The only scenario where SNS is little less appropriate is heavy data volume. Sometimes you may get delayed notification.

It is best suited for sending notifications based on events in the AWS realm. It can be used to alert the developers in case of undesirable activity as well as be used as a medium for sending notifications to production applications

On our project, Vacation Tracker, we have Webhook from Stripe, which calls AWS Lambda and needs us to respond in 10 seconds. If we need to create a PDF Invoice, we need more than 10 seconds. In this case, we use Amazon SNS to call another Lambda, which creates a PDF invoice. This SNS response is very fast and we can respond to Stripe in 10 seconds.

Amazon SNS is great for at least two use-cases: building cheap, non-emergency alerts, and decoupling services with pub/sub messaging. SNS is great for creating email notifications in minutes for alerts that are not worthy of PagerDuty. Subscribing multiple AWS Lambda functions to a topic is a great way to decouple features.

It is well suited for generic push notification requirements. It can be quickly created and modified to best suit your application at any given moment. However for any notification service that needs to be highly customizable for a specific deployment should be implemented through a competing or custom built service run on company servers.

If you and your team are adamant about having a product that lives under the Amazon Web Service umbrella, I can see how SNS would be a good choice for you. However, I do feel that post-integration, there was some regret due to the complexity we were experiencing during testing. We would have been better suited long-term going with a different product.