What is Amazon SNS?
Who uses Amazon SNS?
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Why developers like Amazon SNS?
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Amazon SNS in their tech stack.
Dubsmash
Whenever we need to notify a user of something happening on our platform, whether it’s a personal push notification from one user to another, a new Dub, or a notification going out to millions of users at the same time that new content is available, we rely on AWS Lambda to do this task for us. When we started implementing this feature 2 years ago we were luckily able to get early access to the Lambda Beta and are still happy with the way things are running on there, especially given all the easy to set up integrations with other AWS services.
Lambda enables us to quickly send out million of pushes within a couple of minutes by acting as a multiplexer in front of Amazon SNS. We simply call a first Lambda function with a batch of up to 300 push notifications to be sent, which then calls a subsequent Lambda function with 20 pushes each, which then does the call to SNS to actually send out the push notifications.
This multi-tier process of sending push notifications enables us to quickly adjust our sending volume while keeping costs & maintenance overhead, on our side, to a bare minimum.
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I'm the CTO of a marketing automation SaaS. Because of the continuously increasing load we moved to the AWSCloud. We are using more and more features of AWS: Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon SNS, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53 and so on.
Our main Database is MySQL but for the hundreds of GB document data we use MongoDB more and more. We started to use Redis for cache and other time sensitive operations.
On the front-end we use jQuery UI + Smarty but now we refactor our app to use Vue.js with Vuetify. Because our app is relatively complex we need to use vuex as well.
On the development side we use GitHub as our main repo, Docker for local and server environment and Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline for Continuous Integration.
My Job Glasses
We decided to use AWS Lambda for several serverless tasks such as
- Managing AWS backups
- Processing emails received on Amazon SES and stored to Amazon S3 and notified via Amazon SNS, so as to push a message on our Redis so our Sidekiq Rails workers can process inbound emails
- Pushing some relevant Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms to Slack
Simple MerchantOur primary transport mechanism for events. One SNS topic carries a specific event type and n-number of subscribers (usually a Lambda) may subscribe to that event. Amazon SNS
I mainly use it for the infrastructure notifications and alarms of zerotoherojs.com ’s learning dashboards. Amazon SNS
GrozipAmazon SNS's features
- In most cases, developers can get started with Amazon SNS by using just three APIs: CreateTopic, Subscribe, and Publish. Additional APIs are available, which provide more advanced functionality.
- With SNS you can publish a message once, and deliver it one or more times. So you can choose to direct unique messages to individual Apple, Google or Amazon devices, or broadcast deliveries to many mobile devices with a single publish request.
- SNS allows you to group multiple recipients using topics. A topic is an “access point” for allowing recipients to dynamically subscribe for identical copies of the same notification. One topic can support deliveries to multiple endpoint types -- for example, you can group together iOS, Android and SMS recipients. When you publish once to a topic, SNS delivers appropriately formatted copies of your message to each subscriber.
- Amazon SNS allows applications and end-users on different devices to receive notifications via Mobile Push notification (Apple, Google and Kindle Fire Devices), HTTP/HTTPS, Email/Email-JSON, SMS or Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues.
- Amazon SNS provides access control mechanisms to ensure that topics and messages are secured against unauthorized access
