Amazon SNS Developer Guide

About this manual

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a managed service that provides message delivery from publishers to subscribers. It allows clients to subscribe to topics using various endpoint types, including Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, HTTP, email, mobile push notifications, and SMS. The guide details how to set up topics, manage subscriptions, and publish messages.

What's inside

• What is Amazon SNS?
• Features and capabilities
• Related services
• Accessing Amazon SNS
• Pricing for Amazon SNS
• Common Amazon SNS scenarios
• Application integration
• Application alerts
• User notifications
• Mobile push notifications

Frequently asked questions

How do publishers communicate with subscribers?

Publishers communicate asynchronously with subscribers by sending messages to a topic.

What is the primary function of Amazon SNS?

It is a managed service that provides message delivery from publishers to subscribers.

How do clients receive messages published to an SNS topic?

Clients subscribe to the topic and receive messages using supported endpoint types such as Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, or HTTP.