Inexpensive Transactional SMS
Rating: 9 out of 10
July 18, 2022
SB
Vetted Review
Verified User
4 years of experience
- Sending Text messages
- Ensuring test message compliance with 10 digit numbers.
Starting at $0.01 per 1 million
View Pricing 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…
Learn from top reviewers
Inexpensive Transactional SMS
Rating: 9 out of 10
July 18, 2022We 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...
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)
Rating: 10 out of 10
July 18, 2022The 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-...
Manu Gupta
C-Level Executive - Corporate
Co-founder, Director
Aspiring Investments
7 years of experienceOverview of Amazon SNS
Rating: 9 out of 10
July 14, 2022Amazon 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 ...
Verified user
Director
10 years of experienceSNS- Ideal for Marketing and Alerts
Rating: 9 out of 10
December 2, 2021I 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 ...
Verified user
Analyst
3 years of experienceSimple service to ease alerting
Rating: 8 out of 10
September 7, 2021We 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...
Verified user
Engineer
4 years of experienceAWS SNS delivers
Rating: 7 out of 10
November 8, 2020We 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 ...
Verified user
C-Level Executive
2 years of experienceGreat tool for developing apps which uses event driven architecture
Rating: 8 out of 10
October 1, 2020We 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...
Verified user
Engineer
2 years of experienceAmazon SNS - Simple yet Effective
Rating: 8 out of 10
September 22, 2020We use Amazon SNS to push notifications to customers for previously searched hotels through email and messages.
Verified user
Professional
1 year of experienceI love Amazon SNS.
Rating: 10 out of 10
September 22, 2020Amazon 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 manne...
Verified user
Administrator
1 year of experienceAmazon SNS is like the Central Nervous System to our Technology Stack
Rating: 9 out of 10
September 20, 2020The main use for Amazon Simple Notification Service within our organization is to allow our different products communicate in a subscription based communication paradigm. We a...
Bob Smith
Engineer - Corporate
Co-Founder, President, CTO
Infofree Sales Leads | Business Lists | Person Search & CRM101
9 years of experienceSNS is a simple and easy API to have notifications ready in minutes!
Rating: 9 out of 10
September 20, 2020It is used by the application. We use it mostly to send SMS to our users!
Verified user
Project Manager
3 years of experienceAmazon SNS: An Enterprise level solution for all kind of notification services
Rating: 9 out of 10
September 19, 2020Amazon 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 sys...
Verified user
Engineer
1 year of experienceAmazon SNS from an Amazon Expert
Rating: 8 out of 10
September 17, 2020It 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 appli...
AWS Notifications will Notify You!
Rating: 7 out of 10
September 17, 2020We 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 V...
Rob Domenico
Engineer - Information Technology
Senior Systems Administrator
Bentek Inc.
4 years of experienceBest Notification Service for AWS.
Rating: 9 out of 10
September 15, 2020Amazon 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 ...
Verified user
Engineer
1 year of experience
Log in with LinkedIn to see content from your network
Awards
Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards
Pricing
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
Product Details
- About
- Tech Details
- FAQs
What is Amazon SNS?
Amazon SNS Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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).
Comparisons
Compare with
Reviews and Ratings
(47)Reviews
(1-24 of 24)Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
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)
Rating: 10 out of 10
July 18, 2022
MG
Vetted Review
Verified User
7 years of experience
- 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.
Overview of Amazon SNS
Rating: 9 out of 10
July 14, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
10 years of experience
- Messaging
- Ease of use
- Pricing
SNS- Ideal for Marketing and Alerts
Rating: 9 out of 10
December 02, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- 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
Simple service to ease alerting
Rating: 8 out of 10
September 07, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
4 years of experience
- Very easy to setup
- Scale very well
- Covers a wide range of protocols and services
AWS SNS delivers
Rating: 7 out of 10
November 08, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Relatively simple to integrate in-app.
- Fuss-free for user once implemented.
- Pay-per-use
Great tool for developing apps which uses event driven architecture
Rating: 8 out of 10
October 01, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Improved Logging
- Easy to use
- Helps to keep track of events
Amazon SNS - Simple yet Effective
Rating: 8 out of 10
September 22, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- Scheduling and sending messages is very easy
- Subscription and One-on-One option
- Booked Hotel Details are sent very fast
I love Amazon SNS.
Rating: 10 out of 10
September 22, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- Easy to use
- Easy to set up
- Easy to integrate
Amazon SNS is like the Central Nervous System to our Technology Stack
Rating: 9 out of 10
September 20, 2020
BS
Vetted Review
Verified User
9 years of experience
- View and manage topics.
- Allow product inter-communication.
- Easy to get up and running.
- Bridge between different technologies/stacks used.
SNS is a simple and easy API to have notifications ready in minutes!
Rating: 9 out of 10
September 20, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- SMS
- Push Notifications
- Simple API
Amazon SNS: An Enterprise level solution for all kind of notification services
Rating: 9 out of 10
September 19, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- Notification delivery to different geographies via multiple providers.
- Cost effective as compared to other vendors.
- You can track delivery of notifications as well.
Amazon SNS from an Amazon Expert
Rating: 8 out of 10
September 17, 2020
JG
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Filtration of information.
- Streamlines messages and important information.
- Order information notification typically for clients sold products.
AWS Notifications will Notify You!
Rating: 7 out of 10
September 17, 2020
RD
Vetted Review
Verified User
4 years of experience
- Built in for quicker setup within AWS ecosystem.
- Trusted as you control the users and configuration via IAM and easy access controls.
- Can be sent to S3 simple storage or for long term storage if required.
- Can be used in many regions, same configs.
Best Notification Service for AWS.
Rating: 9 out of 10
September 15, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- Simple
- Easy
- Good Integration
Simple, reliable, effective. SNS provides us a perfect solution for our billing workflows.
Rating: 9 out of 10
September 12, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- SNS is extremely reliable.
- SNS with SQS provides a safe place for messages in the event our services are ever down.
- SNS is easy to configure and subscribe to.
Easy Reliable and Secure
Rating: 9 out of 10
February 06, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Simple to use
- Easy to integrate
Serverless notification handling that fits well into the AWS ecosystem
Rating: 9 out of 10
February 06, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
4 years of experience
- Integrates with Lambda and SQS to allow for sophisticated serverless applications.
- It can be used to support any combination of email, push, or even SMS notifications.
SNS - A connector service in AWS eco system
Rating: 9 out of 10
October 21, 2019
AD
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- 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.
Versatile service for notifying users
Rating: 9 out of 10
July 01, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- Multiple mediums for notifications like email, HTTP, Lambda etc
- Easy to set up the pub sub model
Really simple
Rating: 9 out of 10
May 13, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- Easy to integrate with other AWS solutions.
- Relatively easy setup.
You'll like the integrations so much that you'll forgive the UI
Rating: 8 out of 10
January 26, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- The AWS Lambda SNS trigger is great. Subscribing multiple Lambda functions to an SNS topic is a nice way to decouple features.
- SNS is fully-managed. Our team is too small to manage our own pub/sub infrastructure.
- Subscribing email endpoints to SNS topics and integrating topics with CloudWatch alerts is very easy; we create more non-emergency notifications than we would without SNS.
Simple Notification Service: A worthy choice
Rating: 9 out of 10
October 17, 2018
DC
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- Super simple setup and deployment. You can have a new service set up within minutes and in a serverless environment as well
- Well documented and incredibly easy to use. There are available APIs in almost every relevant language and are all well documented by AWS. Getting any team up to date on their new Notification architecture shouldn't take longer than a day.
- Being managed by AWS themselves makes the service highly available in every possible way. Your SNS deployment is almost guaranteed to never go down without you ever lifting a finger to make it so.
SNS gets the job done but not the best in this space
Rating: 6 out of 10
September 15, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- 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