Item: Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Rating: 8
Author: Anthony Aziz

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently we use SNS to deliver notifications across our infrastructure, including receiving email, email delivery responses, alarm notifications, etc.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Ability to define multiple subscriptions / topics
Dynamically subscribe and publish to topics
Widely integrated with AWS and third party components

Cons

Visibility into delivery, sampling, etc, for troubleshooting

Return on Investment

Implement metrics-based operational alarms
Manage email delivery metrics and handle them within our application to protect email sender reputation
Accept emails from customers and handle directly in custom app functions

Usability

SNS is simple (as the name says) and yet does what it does quite well. Simple to set up, simple to manage, and available for a wide array of use cases.

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?

Yes

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

Datadog, AWS Fargate

Likelihood to Recommend

Using SNS for any notification use case where available is the default and defacto solution. It directly integrates with SES to configure both incoming email and email delivery responses.

Additionally, any notifications, such as CloudWatch alarms, are a good use case for SNS topics and allow us to fan out delivery as needed (pagerduty, email, etc)

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SNS provides simple notification solutions, integrations with key SES and Cloudwatch use cases