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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Push notification management software

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) overview

What is Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service that lets businesses send notifications to mobile devices, email addresses, and SMS/MMS phone numbers from within a unified platform. The platform enables team members to implement real-time push notification functionality across multiple applications, such as social networking, stock market monitoring, IoT applications, and more.

AWS SNS allows staff members to create filter policies across subscriber applications to ensure end-users receive notifications they subscribe to. It lets employees to ensure message privacy, set up encryption protocols, archive messages, send batch messages, and manage other operations.

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

4.6

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) reviews

Overall rating

4.6

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Rating breakdown

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Likelihood to recommend8.4/10

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Pros

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

Shaurya G.

Consulting Intern

“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.”

Anmol D.

CyberSecurity Analyst

“I'm impressed with its reliability and ease of use.”

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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.”

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“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.”

Madhankkumar S.

Senior Data Engineer

“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.”

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