Section 11 - AWS SNS

Question 1

What is AWS SNS ?

Answer 1

A Simple Notification Service

• Push Notification
  
  • To devices (Apple, Google, Fire OS, Windows and Adroid )
• SMS and Email
  
  • SMS text message or email to Amazon Simple Queue(SQS) queues or any HTTP endpoint
• Lambda
  
  • Trigger Lambda functions to process the information in the message, publish to another SNS topic, or send the message to another AWS service
• Pub-Sub model
• Durable Storage
  
  • ​All messages published to Amazon SNS are stored redundantly acrosss multiple Availability Zones

Question 2

AWS SNS Vs SES?

Answer 2

Amazon SES (Simple Email Service)

• Scalable and Highly Available Email
  
  • Designed to help marketing teams and application developers send marketing, notification, and transactional emails to thier customers using a pay-sa-you-go model.
• Send and Receive Email
  
  • Can also be used to receive emails with incoming mails delivered to an S3 Bucket
• Trigger Lambda and SNS
  
  • Incoming emails can be used to trigger Lambda functions and SNS notifications.