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Amazon SNS

Overview

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…

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Recent Reviews

AWS SNS delivers

7 out of 10
November 08, 2020
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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 …
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I love Amazon SNS.

10 out of 10
September 22, 2020
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Amazon SNS is being used to deliver notifications to users. We started with custom software where users could subscribe to certain topics …
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Pricing

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API Requests & Payload Data

$0.01

Cloud
per 1 million

API Requests

$0.50

Cloud
per 1 million requests

Notification Deliveries

$0.50

Cloud
per million notifications

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Amazon SNS?

Amazon SNS Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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 Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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July 18, 2022

Engineer real time event based applications, publish and deliver instant notifications to your subscribers and manage time sensitive events using Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Manu Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Manu Gupta
Co-founder, Director
Aspiring Investments (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
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.
Most Important Features
  • 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
Return on Investment
  • 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
Alternatives Considered
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.
Other Software Used
September 07, 2021

Simple service to ease alerting

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Food & Beverages Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Very easy to setup
  • Scale very well
  • Covers a wide range of protocols and services
  • It would be useful to have more information regarding the origin of a message (ie its source)
  • It would be nice to configure HTTP-related stuff (such as header) when interacting with a HTTP target
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 !
Most Important Features
  • Alerting via HTTP webhooks
  • Sending emails very easily
Return on Investment
  • One tool to unify various notifications systems : sms, email, http webhooks !
Other Software Used
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), SolarWinds Loggly, Microsoft Teams
October 01, 2020

Great tool for developing apps which uses event driven architecture

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Banking Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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
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.
Return on Investment
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) has reduced costs
  • Implementing Event driven architecture has been easy
  • Great tool for monitoring
Alternatives Considered
SNS helps in integrating with other AWS components which are used in development such as Lambda, APIGW, S3 and DynamoDb easily. If used with third party software like PagerDuty, it makes the development and integration more complex. It is used mostly for publishing and subscribing events which is better as compared to other third party softwares.
Support Rating
8
The AWS documentation is well maintained and has lots of information which makes it easier for developers to refer to and develop applications in a fast efficient manner. It is well documented with examples which is easy to understand and implement. You can also get help by posting into forums from like-minded developers.
Usability
8
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.
Other Software Used
September 20, 2020

SNS is a simple and easy API to have notifications ready in minutes!

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is used by the application. We use it mostly to send SMS to our users!
Pros and Cons
  • SMS
  • Push Notifications
  • Simple API
  • Push Notifications due to multiple providers
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Return on Investment
  • Integrated with other AWS products.
  • Easy to put in practice.
  • We do not have to worry about carrier providers per country.
Alternatives Considered
SNS is already integrated with other AWS services. I can reuse lists or topics.
Support Rating
9
It is really good. It does what we expect. It deals with different sources from the inside. For end users it is like black box that does what we need.
Usability
9
Easy to use. Easy to implement. Easy to test.
Other Software Used
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon CloudFront
February 06, 2020

Easy Reliable and Secure

Verified User
Employee in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Simple to use
  • Easy to integrate
  • AWS integration difficult for naive users
  • Not Open Source
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Return on Investment
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • More value against investment
Alternatives Considered
Our clients are mostly on AWS, so it was easy for us to use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and to integrate it with current applications.
Support Rating
9
AWS Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) support is 24*7 so its easy for us to get in touch with the support and resolve our problem.
Other Software Used
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