What is Amazon SNS?
Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) is a notification service.
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What is Amazon SNS?
Amazon SNS is an affordable cloud service for mass delivery of messages.
It is a fully managed publish-subscribe messaging and mobile communication service. It can be event-driven, with automated services responding to triggers.
Distributed systems and microservices can be decoupled with messaging between them through Amazon SNS.
Application-to-person messaging to users is possible with SMS, mobile push, and email.
Message endpoints
Amazon SNS can publish messages to many different endpoints:
- HTTP and HTTPS
- Email and Email-JSON
- Amazon SQS
- Application
- Amazon Lambda
- SMS (depending on region)
Amazon SNS Pricing
Amazon SNS is priced by usage and varies by delivery mechanism.