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Amazon SNS is like the Central Nervous System to our Technology Stack
September 20, 2020

Amazon SNS is like the Central Nervous System to our Technology Stack

Bob Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

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.
  • View and manage topics.
  • Allow product inter-communication.
  • Easy to get up and running.
  • Bridge between different technologies/stacks used.
  • Reporting available is good, but there are always room to grow.
  • Analytics on message origin would be beneficial.
  • Message size limit increase.
  • Amazon SNS allowed us to quickly get started.
  • We have never had an issue with service availability of SNS.
  • There is a cost, but the positives are worth it.
Amazon Simple Notification Service and PagerDuty have been used by various organizations. Amazon SNS is ideal if you're within an AWS environment. PagerDuty is used when we are working outside of Amazon Web Services. Though PagerDuty is more expensive than Amazon SNS they do have better reporting capabilities in specific areas.
Amazon SNS is simple and easy to use. Quoting Albert Einstein “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” This is pretty much where SNS is.

Do you think Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) again?

Yes

Push notifications of events occurring are the best scenario where Amazon Simple Notification Service is used within our stack. But because it can be integrated with different products, it does bridge the gap between different communication platforms we use. Though sometimes there are more elegant ways to accomplish this, SNS sometimes is the quickest way to move forward because we are already using it.