What is Amazon Simple Notification Service?
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a fully managed pub/sub messaging and mobile notifications service for coordinating the delivery of messages to subscribing endpoints and clients. With Amazon SNS, you can fan out messages to a large number of subscribers including distributed systems, microservices, and AWS services using a variety of protocols including SMS, email, SQS, HTTP/S and Lambda.
Key capabilities and use cases for Amazon SNS include:
- Reliable delivery of messages across a variety of transport protocols
- Simple APIs and easy integration with applications
- Flexible message delivery over multiple transport protocols
- Inexpensive, pay-as-you-go model with no up-front costs
- Web-based AWS Management Console offers the simplicity of a point-and-click interface
By using Amazon SNS, developers can spend more time building applications and less time managing infrastructure. With Amazon SNS, you pay only for what you use. There are no upfront costs and no fixed monthly fees.