Inexpensive Transactional SMS
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 …
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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 Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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July 18, 2022
Inexpensive Transactional SMS
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.
- Sending Text messages
- Ensuring test message compliance with 10 digit numbers.
- Notifying us when certain providers are down.
- Transactional messaging for our OTPs
- SNS is a lot cheaper per message costs than the competitors. It's allowed us to save money on our OTP transactions.
- SNS is a very stable platform. When we have issues with our OTP, it's almost never an issue with the actual service uptime.
SNS is much cheaper and easier to integrate.
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.
July 14, 2022
Overview of Amazon SNS
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.
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Amazon’s SNS is incredibly easy to set up compared to the
more powerful, but complex, Kafka flavours.
SNS’s core advantages are –
· no setup/no maintenance
· either a queue (SQS) or a topic (SNS)
· various limitations (on size, how long a message lives, etc)
· limited throughput: you can do batch and concurrent requests, but still achieving high throughputs would be expensive
· SNS has notifications for email, SMS, SQS, HTTP built-in.
· no "message stream" concept
Overall, it would be the best choice to get into the concepts of Pub/Sub concepts as although it has limitations it can provide significant capabilities and solutions
SNS’s core advantages are –
· no setup/no maintenance
· either a queue (SQS) or a topic (SNS)
· various limitations (on size, how long a message lives, etc)
· limited throughput: you can do batch and concurrent requests, but still achieving high throughputs would be expensive
· SNS has notifications for email, SMS, SQS, HTTP built-in.
· no "message stream" concept
Overall, it would be the best choice to get into the concepts of Pub/Sub concepts as although it has limitations it can provide significant capabilities and solutions
December 02, 2021
SNS- Ideal for Marketing and Alerts
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
- Easy GUI to use
- Integration with automation
- Integration with third party platforms
- Daily reports
- Ability to have subscriptions and topics
- Ability to connect to third party applications
- Errors are hard to debug
- Lack of verbose errors
- Subscriptions and topics
- Email and SMS
- SDK integration
- Integration with Grafana
- Ability to see when our services are down
- Ability to alert based on number of occurrences
- Clients awareness through alerting
I worked with Adobe Campaign 2 years ago and comparatively, SNS is way better and easier to integrate with. There's a lack of latency with SNS and better customer support. Easier to group with subscriptions and easier to work from the command line with the use of the SDK. All in all a superior product
September 07, 2021
Simple service to ease alerting
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.
- 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
- Alerting via HTTP webhooks
- Sending emails very easily
- One tool to unify various notifications systems : sms, email, http webhooks !