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SNS- Ideal for Marketing and Alerts
December 02, 2021

SNS- Ideal for Marketing and Alerts

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

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

I 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 features you can use as well as benefits of setting up the subscriptions from the back end. We use Terragrunt to easily upload all our data
  • 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
  • Errors are hard to debug
  • Lack of verbose errors
  • Subscriptions and topics
  • Email and SMS
  • SDK integration
  • Integration with Grafana
  • Ability to see when our services are down
  • Ability to alert based on number of occurrences
  • Clients awareness through alerting
I worked with Adobe Campaign 2 years ago and comparatively, SNS is way better and easier to integrate with. There's a lack of latency with SNS and better customer support. Easier to group with subscriptions and easier to work from the command line with the use of the SDK. All in all a superior product

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

I think that SNS is very well suited if you need to send emails or text messages in response to events. Whether you use lambda or Grafana or other alerting platforms where you can have an event trigger a message to go out to your team. I also have used SNS as a marketing platform tool where we simply use it to send text messages based on event-driven actions and also for batch messages