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Simple, reliable, effective. SNS provides us a perfect solution for our billing workflows.
September 12, 2020

Simple, reliable, effective. SNS provides us a perfect solution for our billing workflows.

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

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

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.
  • 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.
  • For our use cases SNS completely fills our needs.
  • It's dead simple to use and solves a problem that otherwise would have taken many man hours to solution.
  • There is low maintenance and the reliability means we won't be losing revenue to lost messages.
Our company prioritizes using AWS offerings unless there is a strong use case for using something within Azure. SQS is a similar service that solves different problems and we are using it in conjunction with SNS.
The documentation and community are top notch with AWS. One of the reasons we like to stick with AWS is there are endless resources to help us if we run into any problems.
SNS has been extremely easy to use, is very reliable, and subject matter experts are easy to find because of how broadly used AWS services are.

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 Queue Service (SQS), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
It works well for us because we have a number of different groups that are interested in updates and we don't want to be in charge of sending individual messages via API's or separate queues to each of those groups. They subscribe and filter to get the messages that they are interested in and it is extremely reliable.