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Serverless notification handling that fits well into the AWS ecosystem
February 06, 2020

Serverless notification handling that fits well into the AWS ecosystem

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

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

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.
  • 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.
  • E-mail and SMS notifications aren't all that customizable, meaning this won't be a good solution for consumer-facing notifications.
  • The opt-in process for e-mail and SMS notifications is cumbersome.
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) saved us a lot of extra coding time by providing straightforward functionality we needed in our ad campaign automation tool.
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) allows us to maintain a consistent, serverless model within our applications.
We have reached out to Amazon Web Services support for help with Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) a few times and always received helpful responses promptly. Getting limits increased, and questions answered has been easy and convenient.

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

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) can be a powerful tool in a serverless toolbox. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is best suited for handling service-to-service notifications between different applications or steps in an existing serverless workflow. If you're using AWS services to handle different parts of your existing serverless application or workflow and you need a tool to facilitate reliable notifications, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) will handle that task very well.