Understanding Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
The Amazon SNS is used for sending notifications from the cloud. We are exploring more about Amazon SNS here.
What is Amazon SNS?
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and send notifications from the cloud. Amazon SNS is used for building and integrating loosely coupled, distributed applications. SNS provides instantaneous, push-based delivery (no polling).
Uses simple APIs and easy integration with applications. Flexible message delivery is provided over multiple transport protocols. Offered under an inexpensive, pay-as-you-go model with no up-front costs. The web-based AWS Management Console offers the simplicity of a point-and-click interface. In SNS the Data type is JSON.
SNS supports various needs, including event notification, monitoring applications, workflow systems, time-sensitive information updates, mobile applications, and any other application that generates or consumes notifications.
SNS Concept
There are mainly three components included in the SNS concept.
- Topics: It is how you label and group different endpoints that you send messages to.
- Subscriptions: the endpoints that a…
