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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

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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Manu Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
November 08, 2020

AWS SNS delivers

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 22, 2020

I love Amazon SNS.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Bob Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The main use for Amazon Simple Notification Service within our organization is to allow our different products communicate in a subscription based communication paradigm. We are able to share state information across servers in a notification style which reduces the number of consecutive pulls or checking a common resource to allow our infrastructure to scale at need.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is basically used as a filtration system by some of our clients that sell on Amazon. The system allows them to subscribe to specific types of Amazon messages that are applicable to them and then sends them notifications for those relatable messages. It helps save them time by cutting through all of the unnecessary, unapplicable information and gets them what they need in a quick and easy process.
Rob Domenico | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the simple notification services extensively for team in Client Service to Development and Operations, as events are collected and metrics evaluated across the entire VPC. Amazon simple notification is primarily used with the DevOps staff for managing activity by cloudwatch events, to be sent via configured topics for SNS to all department members.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon SNS is used to communicate simple notifications across different scenarios, using emails and SMS. It addresses the problem of notifying different states for example in cloud instances, so we don't need to check each one manually. Also, it is very easy to integrate into your workflow, as it communicates fluently with other AWS Services.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My team is using SNS as a way to pass messages back and forth between our billing systems and end user products. We send account/subscription messages on create and update and our products send usage messages that we subscribe to via SQS and process usage into our billing system.
February 06, 2020

Easy Reliable and Secure

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) within several serverless applications to create and manage both human-read and service-read notifications as a part of our internal automation workflows. One of these applications uses Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) notifications to notify a dashboard interface when there are status changes in a queue process that places ad campaign listings on different platforms. Success and failure messages can be triggered and display in realtime.
Apurv Doshi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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:
  1. To notify the stack holder when build and deployment is completed.
  2. To check and report environment health.
  3. Call consumers when all async producers finish their jobs.
  4. To send Push notifications.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used within our team(Mobile/Iot Development) to notify us developers in case anything within our AWS account needs attention. The primary target of most of our notifications is an email to the developers, whereas sometimes we do trigger Lambda functions using SNS.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The engineering and data teams at my organization use Amazon SNS for two purposes. The first is to create simple notifications for non-emergency alerts. It is easy to configure a CloudWatch alarm, create an SNS topic, and subscribe some email addresses to the topic. The second purpose is to use topics and pub/sub messaging to decouple micro-services. AWS Lambda has an SNS trigger; it is easy to build functions and invoke them when events are published.
Dylan Cauwels | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon SNS is an incredibly useful service. In my previous organizations, we used it as an easy way to get a notification service set up with our users without having to manage any servers or additional resources. The messages are incredibly inexpensive and cost close to nothing. I only know that it was being used in my sector for sure, however, I am confident that it was being used all across the organization as well. It was the only available service that could solve our email/SMS notification needs with available scaling, cost savings, and ease of use for our employees and customers.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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