This is the AWS service that allows you to send individual messages to a large number of recipients or other distributed AWS services.
SNS is a Push notification AWS service.
SNS is a fast, flexible, fully managed notification service.
It is a web service that coordinates and manages the delivery or sending of messages to subscribing endpoints or clients.
Messages published to an SNS topic will be delivered to the subscriber immediately.
This is a pay-as-you-go model with no upfront cost AWS service.
Reliable service.
At least three copies of the data are stored across multiple AZ in the same region.
It is a way of sending a message when you are using auto-scaling, it triggers an SNS service which will email you that “Your EC2 instance is growing”.
Publisher – Publisher is also known as producers that produce and send the message to the SNS which is a logical access point.
– Subscriber such as web servers, email addresses, Amazon SQS queues, AWS Lambda, receive the message or notification from the SNS over one of the supported protocols, Like Amazon SQS, Emails, Lambda, HTTPS, SMS.
SNS Topic
It is a logical point and communication channel.
Each topic has a unique name.
A topic Name is limited to 256 alphanumeric characters
The topic name must be unique within the AWS account
Each topic is assigned an AWS ARN once it gets created.
A topic can support Subscribers and notification deliveries over multiple protocols
Messages/requests published to a single topic can be delivered to multiple protocols as configured when creating each subscriber.
Delivery formats/transport protocols(end-points)
SMS
Emails
EMail – Json for applications
HTTP/HTTPS
SQS
AWS lambda
Supported push Notifications Platforms
Amazon Device Messaging
Apple Push Notifications service
Google cloud messaging
Windows Push Notification service
There are some Amazon SNS alternatives
Amazon Kinesis Datastream
Amazon Managed queue service
Apache Kafka
Twilio
Pusher
Amazon SNS have different prices as per the region. Please go through the official page for more information.
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