Engineer real time event based applications, publish and deliver instant notifications to your subscribers and manage time sensitive events using Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
July 18, 2022
Engineer real time event based applications, publish and deliver instant notifications to your subscribers and manage time sensitive events using Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
The Amazon SNS service provides support to a wide variety of needs including critical events notification, monitoring hybrid mobile applications both on ios and android, time-sensitive information updates. We are in the process of scaling our projects to include Amazon SNS in business workflow systems to relay events among apps, move data between data stores or update records in billing systems.
The product is very useful in managing key event notifications. We also plan to use it for our customers to update them about our new features and critical outages. The scope of our use case is both for managing AWS backend events within the organizational workflows and also for notifications to our customers.
The product is very useful in managing key event notifications. We also plan to use it for our customers to update them about our new features and critical outages. The scope of our use case is both for managing AWS backend events within the organizational workflows and also for notifications to our customers.
Pros
- Event updates and notifications concerning validation, approval are immediately delivered to relevant system components as well as end-users.
- Move data between data stores or update records in billing systems
- SNS is very useful in workflow systems to relay events among distributed applications
- Event notification, monitoring applications, workflow systems, time-sensitive information updates in billing and ledgering systems.
- Very useful to developers who build applications that rely on real-time events.
Cons
- Interoperability with other cloud vendors and shared hosting systems
- Better support and integration with low code/no code platforms to enable developers to integrate faster
- Ease of developer experience especially in managing real time database events for hybrid mobile and tablet apps
- Availability of plugins for open source cross platform developer tools like ionic framework.
- Flexibility in message delivery over multiple transport protocols
- Cost effective, pay-as-you-go model with no up-front costs
- Web-based AWS Management Console offers the simplicity of a point-and-click interface
- Simple APIs and easy integration
- Instant message delivery
- Easy to bootstrap fresh developers with limited cloud and backend experience
- Quick deployment is very much possible and we can make customizations easily. Adaptability with ever changing needs of customers is possible.
- Good solution for interns who build customer applications that rely on real-time events.
- Event updates and notifications concerning validation, approval are easy to develop
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is well integrated in AWS and has been there since the early days of public cloud. It is a cost effective and very inexpensive solution to meet the needs of event notifications and custom messaging. Wish to share that there is considerable number of developers who can easily build solutions using AWS SNS. So, training costs are minimal. Other solutions are emerging and we are seeing a great usage especially of Firebase notifications because of its very neat integration with open source cross platform hybrid app frameworks like ionic, xamarin. SNS needs to become better and should have plugin support for the mobile application developers using low code/no code tools too.
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
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