Item: Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Improved Logging
Easy to use
Helps to keep track of events

Cons

Pricing
If permissions are not configured properly it will give access denied
Dashboards are difficult to implement

Return on Investment

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) has reduced costs
Implementing Event driven architecture has been easy
Great tool for monitoring

Alternatives Considered

PagerDuty

SNS helps in integrating with other AWS components which are used in development such as Lambda, APIGW, S3 and DynamoDb easily. If used with third party software like PagerDuty, it makes the development and integration more complex. It is used mostly for publishing and subscribing events which is better as compared to other third party softwares.

Support Rating

The AWS documentation is well maintained and has lots of information which makes it easier for developers to refer to and develop applications in a fast efficient manner. It is well documented with examples which is easy to understand and implement. You can also get help by posting into forums from like-minded developers.

Usability

It is useful for applications developed using event driven architecture. It helps in tracking and logging the events in a very timely and efficient manner. The dashboards are a little difficult to implement. But overall it is very easy to integrate with other AWS services like Lambda, API GW, S3 and DynamoDB. The permissions to access should be resolved before using it.

Key Insights

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

Yes

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

Yes

Other Software Used

AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon API Gateway

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is well suited for applications built on event driven architecture. It makes it easy to log and track events in real time from the source to the destination. The permissions should be configured properly in order to use SNS else while implementing you can come across Access Denied errors. The dashboards are difficult to maintain to track the utilization.

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Great tool for developing apps which uses event driven architecture