I find Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) incredibly useful for solving real-time notification and event distribution challenges. It effectively addresses issues across our ETL pipelines, infrastructure management systems, and distributed systems. Using Amazon SNS, we can trigger alerts, notifications, and downstream workflows whenever application events or infrastructure issues occur. It's especially helpful in our ELT pipeline for sending notifications if our Glue jobs fail, which enhances automation and minimizes manual monitoring efforts. Additionally, it improves our visibility, allowing us to quickly identify and address issues. I also appreciate the multiple subscription types, which offer flexible notification options like HTTP, webhook, and API. The scalable messaging handles high event volumes reliably, sending out real-time notifications for faster operational response. The fan-out messaging supports an efficient event architecture and distribution. The basic setup is straightforward, and although configuring different subscription types and integrations involves some back-and-forth, it remains manageable. Switching to Amazon SNS reduced our operational overhead and seamlessly integrated with AWS native event-driven architectures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Managing complex message filtering and large scale subscriber configurations can become difficult over time. Monitoring message delivery failures across multiple integrations may also require additional setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use Amazon Simple Notification Services for real-time messaging and event-driven communication across systems. We mainly use SNS to send notifications to multiple subscribers simultaneously. It helps us automate alerts for pipeline failures, as well as notifications upon job completion and other monitoring events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don’t have any major dislikes about Amazon Simple Notification Services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS SNS made it very easy to send real-time notifications across multiple endpoints like email, SMS, and Lambda functions from a single topic. The integration with other AWS services like SQS and Lambda was seamless, and setting up topic subscriptions took very little time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The monitoring and debugging experience could be better. When a message delivery fails, tracing the root cause through CloudWatch logs is time-consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used this service to send the notification via push notification as well as email notification on my emails that these person have opened the email as well as open our app so we can track the things easily in it and get notified for it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing everything is fine and best as we can integrate other types of notification from one service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its easy to use, I like the simple interface and the sdk to integrate through our backend is best Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sometimes i the cost gets increased, and the permission system is way too complicated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) has seamless integration with other AWS services. It helps to build event driven application. It supports HTTPS, email and SMS and helps to deliver notifications to different end points. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We need to build new layer in order to integrate hybridcloud architecture and also CRM. Also limited message filtering also makes it hard to use some cases. We have addressed these integration challenges and have provided a reliable notification architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are using Amazon Simple Notification for a wide variety of use cases such as budget alerts, and daily snapshot creation notifications, recently used it for a DevOps use case with Codebuild for getting notifications if the build fails, and the most interesting fact about SNS is it super easy-to-use service, which can be integrated with any AWS service easily, and effortlessly get implemented and that is the reason it is frequently used because of these features of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Simple Notification Service has absolutely nothing that can be disliked, as it is a cost-effective service that solves the main cause of concern when working with AWS services their high usage price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use sns in my apache ofbiz application for sending messages and it sends messages very fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

only think i didn't like are its limitations while sending the messages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The sns service is very economical, cheaper and easy to use service provided by aws. it is highly available and reliable. easy to integrate with other services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the service is regional based. sometime this service we can not use if we have resources in another region. expensive to use if you sending messages on mobile numbers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It tracks our account and the services we are using and keep informing us through notification according to our setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

According to me there are not much dislikes about it . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.