Amazon Web Services: Simple Notification Service

In this blog, we will discuss Simple notification service

SNS sends notices to internal assets from AWS:from Application to user OR to application or user. SNS is useful for monitoring, alerts and logging.

SNS Setup

To set up a SNS,

•  Create a Topic. Think it as a mailbox or email alias
• Add Subscribers: Think of it like a  multiple recipients.If more than just email
• Subscribers must confirm since this is an internal message
• And you send messages to the Topic. All confirmed subscribers immedialy et the message

SNS Overview

• it obviates the need to build custom messaging
• its push based messaging
• Deep integration with other AWS services
• it has API and AWS console support

.Next we identify SNS subscriber types

• Http/s
• email/ email-JSON
• SMS
• SQS

SNS Service integration

• Autoscaling: Publish instance add/remove messages
• EC2:Application on EC2 can leverage SNS
• S3
• Cloudwatch