AWS SNS - Simple Notification Service

Cloud Notification Service - AWS SNS

AWS Simple Notification is also called AWS SNS

SNS (Simple Notification Service) is a notification service.

SNS is a cloud service for the mass delivery of messages.

It is a fully managed publish-subscribe messaging and mobile communication service.

It can be event-driven, with automated services responding to triggers.

Distributed systems and micro services can be decoupled with messaging between them through AWS SNS.

Application-to-person messaging to users is possible with SMS, mobile push, and email.

AWS SNS can publish messages to many different endpoints:

SNS is a notification system, which pushes messages to its subscribers.

SQS is a queuing system, and the receivers have to pull the messages to be processed and deleted from the queue.

SNS and SQS can works well together.