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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…
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.5.
The most common users of Amazon SNS are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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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.
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.
- Event updates and notifications concerning validation, approval are immediately delivered to relevant system components as well as end-users.
- Move data between data stores or update records in billing systems
- SNS is very useful in workflow systems to relay events among distributed applications
- Event notification, monitoring applications, workflow systems, time-sensitive information updates in billing and ledgering systems.
- Very useful to developers who build applications that rely on real-time events.
- Interoperability with other cloud vendors and shared hosting systems
- Better support and integration with low code/no code platforms to enable developers to integrate faster
- Ease of developer experience especially in managing real time database events for hybrid mobile and tablet apps
- Availability of plugins for open source cross platform developer tools like ionic framework.
- Flexibility in message delivery over multiple transport protocols
- Cost effective, pay-as-you-go model with no up-front costs
- Web-based AWS Management Console offers the simplicity of a point-and-click interface
- Simple APIs and easy integration
- Instant message delivery
- Easy to bootstrap fresh developers with limited cloud and backend experience
- Quick deployment is very much possible and we can make customizations easily. Adaptability with ever changing needs of customers is possible.
- Good solution for interns who build customer applications that rely on real-time events.
- Event updates and notifications concerning validation, approval are easy to develop
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is well integrated in AWS and has been there since the early days of public cloud. It is a cost effective and very inexpensive solution to meet the needs of event notifications and custom messaging. Wish to share that there is considerable number of developers who can easily build solutions using AWS SNS. So, training costs are minimal. Other solutions are emerging and we are seeing a great usage especially of Firebase notifications because of its very neat integration with open source cross platform hybrid app frameworks like ionic, xamarin. SNS needs to become better and should have plugin support for the mobile application developers using low code/no code tools too.
November 08, 2020
AWS SNS delivers
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.
- Allowed us to reach learners without email addresses.
No obvious difference. We chose AWS SNS, as we are an AWS EdStart company and built on the AWS stack already.
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.
- Cost of alert calls to the different stakeholders across different geographies have gone down since using Amazon SNS.
- Amazon SNS has saved a lot of time for the employees that they used to spend to call multiple stakeholders so they can now focus more on productive tasks.
- Amazon SNS usage needs prior knowledge of programming.
We have looked at other service providers, including the local service providers as well, but Amazon SNS stood ahead of all in terms of service availability across the globe and cost-effective plans per notification SMS. Moreover, we can also use Amazon SNS along with other AWS services to create a better ecosystem, which definitely helps it to stand out.
October 21, 2019
SNS - A connector service in AWS eco system
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.
- We mainly use SNS for async task completion notifications. We notify SQS on completion of some operations via SNS. Since SNS take no charge to deliver notification to SQS, it is a good advantage.
- Mobile push notifications and HTTPS are relatively cheap but with intense data load, you end up spending lot more money. You need to design your notifications carefully. Email and SMS notifications are expensive.One must need to follow proper strategy to use them.
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and AWS Lambda
We use EC2 instances to train ML model against a heavy volume of data. When the model is trained (i.e. loss reduces to a certain level), we push notification to all the stakeholders to notify them the new model is available. To achieve it, SNS is the most simple and cost effective way.
September 15, 2018
SNS gets the job done but not the best in this space
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.
- Ability to serve up marketing push notifications to our users in a timely fashion
- Ability to serve up trigger-based push notifications to our users
- Ease of integration allowed for fast deployment
As I mentioned previously, I wish we had gone with a different service such as a Mixpanel or OneSignal as they are reputable in the space and are known for their strong support and documentation. AWS SNS was the way to go for us at the time we chose it due to the fact that we were getting into using AWS Microservices and felt it would be best to stay the course.