Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service)

What is Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service)?

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a push messaging service that enables sending notifications to mobile devices, email recipients, and other distributed services. It provides a fast, flexible, and fully managed solution for delivering individual messages or broadcasting messages to large numbers of recipients With SNS, users can send notifications to a variety of devices, including Apple, Google, Fire OS, and Windows devices, as well as to Android devices in China via Baidu Cloud Push. The service also supports sending SMS messages to mobile device users in the US and email recipients worldwide. Beyond these endpoints, SNS can deliver messages to Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS Lambda functions, or any HTTP endpoint

Highlights

• Supports sending notifications to a wide range of mobile devices and other destinations
• Allows publishing a message once and delivering it to multiple recipients or endpoint types
• Enables grouping of multiple recipients using topics for efficient message delivery
• Provides an API and easy-to-use management console for scalable push messaging
• Offers cost-effective and seamless scaling from a small number of messages to millions