Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
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Most Helpful Reviews for Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
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Madhankkumar
Verified reviewer
Telecommunications, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2023
Send notification to your emails with low cost SNS service !
Definitely a go to services for sending out notifications for AWS users.
PROSThe SNS is great at integration . The services is almost able to interact with all the other AWS services and able to get the notifications for them and deliver the same to the users. The Notifications are delivered to user with minimal delay .
CONSAt times there are cases were few notifications are lost when the s3 trigger event was set up to throw the notification when the file arrives.
Reason for choosing Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Chose SNS considering most of our services runs in AWS.
Anonymous
501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2022
Software engineer's experience using Amazon SNS
I used SNS together with SQS to broadcast messages to several recipients.
PROSSimple friendly API, very easy to use when you are already using the infrastructure from Amazon. Not expensive, pay as you go model. Based on pushing messages, not polling. Integrates great with Amazon SQS.
CONSIt has hard limits on the number and size of messages per second. It is difficult to decide whether to use SNS and SQS or, for example, EventBridge.
Reason for choosing Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
In the organization we were already using Amazon's services, it was easier to use SNS which was hosted in the cloud than to put up the whole Apache Kafka from scratch.
Shaurya
Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed September 2022
Inexpensive messaging tool which can integrate easily with multiple AWS services
Pricing is great considering the amount of functionalities it provide. Provides nearly realtime delivery which is very important for critical time sensitive applications
CONSDoes not store messages hence it is always needed to back it up with other tools ( For example SQS). This increases the complexity of application and increases the cost
Anonymous
1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2022
Its great until its limitations block you
* AWS integration with other services like SQS or lambda, which help you a lot to speed up your development. * Out of the box http calls and email deliveries. I have used it extensively and the most valued feature for me is the fanout messages, i.e sending the same message to multiple consumers(sqs queues) so changes in the system can be propagated to the workload.
CONSThe biggest con I have with SNS is that there is no way to store the sent messages, making it costly and hard to implement when something goes wrong and you need to resend all the previous messages. Probably it's because its not the purpose of the tool but usually I have hit this issue when choosing SNS as an event source.
Reasons for switching to Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Because of operational overhead
Anmol
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2023
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
the best feature I most like about SNS is its on-time alert notification and if there is one message already there. Then the SNS queue will start and works on the First in first-out perspective.Even we can integrate mail as well as SMS for notification
CONSfor the free tier, the account is free for one million requests but after that, the pricing is hiked like a rocket. They need to work on it because many of our clients stop using it because of price issues.
Anonymous
201-500 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed February 2023
Another good AWS service for your solution using notifications
It is a very simple service as the name says but makes the solution more reliable which lets you send/track alerts and notifications, which can be integrated with other AWS services too making it more robust and useful.
PROSThis lets you programatically send messages/notifications to all your desired customers with the help of triggers as messages or emails which is easily scalable and can be managed without any worries too. In our usecase, we used it for push notifications to via emails mainly to the audience we intent to send. Configuration and setting up takes a couple of minutes.
CONSNot too much customization provided because it is mainly managed by AWS. Service Documentation can be improved with more in-detail information, including integrations with other services just for reference.
Gianluigi
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2022
A really "simple" notification sstem
We use AWS SNS in many projects to sending push notifications, mail and SMS. We can setup a Multi Factor Authentication system integrated in a SSO flow really fast thanks to Lambda functions triggered on SNS events.
PROSAWS SNS results really simple to integrate in our systems and on external services. API documentation is as usual for AWS serices really complete and easy to understand.
CONSFor SMS notifications AWS SNS can be more expensive compared to other services but it remains a cheap and cost effective tool.
Reason for choosing Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Skebby is probably cheaper for sending SMS in some regions, but the power of SNS api and integration with other AWS tools makes SNS preferable for us.
Giuseppe
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2022
Easy way to implement app notification
Easy to configure and implement integration with backend. As every AWS service, has 100% uptime. Best in class in my opinion.
CONSthere is no problem I encountered throughout my use of the service.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used monthly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2023
The platform at the height of our needs
Simple management and monitoring: Amazon SNS provides a simple way to manage and monitor topic subscriptions and cost-effective: Amazon SNS offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model, allowing you to pay only for what you use.
CONSIt is expensive on high volume messages hanleing
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2023
Effortless Notification Management with Amazon SNS
I'm impressed with its reliability and ease of use. Setting up notification topics and subscriptions is straightforward, and the service's web interface makes it simple to view and manage the status of my messages.
CONSNothing much. The interface can be improved to make it more user friendly