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Overview

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

4.6

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Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a push notification solution that helps businesses streamline processes related to message filtering, encryption, archiving, analytics, durability, privacy, and other processes on a centralized platform. It allows staff members to set up, manage, and deliver notifications across email, mobile apps, devices, SMS, and browsers.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) allows employees to receive notifications for events across multiple AWS services and categories, such as machine learning, IoT, containers, databases, analytics, security, compute, and storage applications. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via FAQs, documentation, email, and other online measures.

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

70%

20%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

3.8

Functionality

4.2

Madhankkumar S.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The 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 .

Cons:

At 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.

Reasons for choosing Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Chose SNS considering most of our services runs in AWS.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Software engineer's experience using Amazon SNS

I used SNS together with SQS to broadcast messages to several recipients.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Simple 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.

Cons:

It 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.

Reasons 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 G.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

Inexpensive messaging tool which can integrate easily with multiple AWS services

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Pricing is great considering the amount of functionalities it provide. Provides nearly realtime delivery which is very important for critical time sensitive applications

Cons:

Does 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

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Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Its great until its limitations block you

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

* 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.

Cons:

The 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

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Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This 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.

Cons:

Not 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.

Anmol D.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2023

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

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

Cons:

for 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.

Gianluigi M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

AWS 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.

Cons:

For SMS notifications AWS SNS can be more expensive compared to other services but it remains a cheap and cost effective tool.

Reasons 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 N.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Easy way to implement app notification

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to configure and implement integration with backend. As every AWS service, has 100% uptime. Best in class in my opinion.

Cons:

there is no problem I encountered throughout my use of the service.

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Reviewer

E-Learning

2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2023

The platform at the height of our needs

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

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.

Cons:

It is expensive on high volume messages hanleing

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Reviewer

Market Research

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

Effortless Notification Management with Amazon SNS

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

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.

Cons:

Nothing much. The interface can be improved to make it more user friendly

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