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  5. Amazon SNS vs Flow XO

Amazon SNS vs Flow XO

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Amazon SNS
Amazon SNS
Stacks1.4K
Followers1.2K
Votes18
Flow XO
Flow XO
Stacks19
Followers39
Votes10

Amazon SNS vs Flow XO: What are the differences?

Developers describe Amazon SNS as "Fully managed push messaging service". Amazon Simple Notification Service makes it simple and cost-effective to push to mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, and internet connected smart devices, as well as pushing to other distributed services. Besides pushing cloud notifications directly to mobile devices, SNS can also deliver notifications by SMS text message or email, to Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues, or to any HTTP endpoint. On the other hand, Flow XO is detailed as "Build, host & manage bots in one platform". Everything you need to create and manage bots. Build powerful bots without code, bots work seamlessly across platforms, and we host, manage & scale your bots.

Amazon SNS and Flow XO are primarily classified as "Mobile Push Messaging" and "Chatbot Platforms &" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Amazon SNS are:

  • 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.

On the other hand, Flow XO provides the following key features:

  • Start interactions by direct message, mention or overhear
  • Recognise variations on your trigger words/phrases
  • Ask questions and validate the format of the answer

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Advice on Amazon SNS, Flow XO

Manish
Manish

Lead Consultant at Knoldus Software LLp

Oct 24, 2020

Needs adviceonAmazon SNSAmazon SNSAmazon PinpointAmazon Pinpoint

Instead of Amazon SNS, which is currently being used to send outbound push notification and including SMS, we want to build the 2 Way SMS using Amazon Pinpoint. Just want to know about Pinpoint and any outstanding issues if we drop SNS since it does not support 2 Way and use Pinpoint for both incoming and outgoing flow.

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Detailed Comparison

Amazon SNS
Amazon SNS
Flow XO
Flow XO

Amazon Simple Notification Service makes it simple and cost-effective to push to mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, and internet connected smart devices, as well as pushing to other distributed services. Besides pushing cloud notifications directly to mobile devices, SNS can also deliver notifications by SMS text message or email, to Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues, or to any HTTP endpoint.

Everything you need to create and manage bots. Build powerful bots without code, bots work seamlessly across platforms, and we host, manage & scale your bots.

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
Start interactions by direct message, mention or overhear;Recognise variations on your trigger words/phrases;Ask questions and validate the format of the answer;Single message, multi-message, choice or yes/no questions;Use filters to add if/else logic to your interactions;Wait hours/days or wait until a specific date;Perform text, number and date manipulations;Excellent support for getting and posting data by webhook;Native database service for simple key/value storage
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Followers
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Votes
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Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 12
    Low cost
  • 6
    Supports multi subscribers
Pros
  • 3
    Point and click Bot Framework. Loads of integrations
  • 3
    Easy WebHooks integration
  • 2
    Easy integration with DialogFlow
  • 2
    Very fast upport
Integrations
No integrations available
Slack
Slack
Telegram Bot API
Telegram Bot API

What are some alternatives to Amazon SNS, Flow XO?

OneSignal

OneSignal

OneSignal is a high volume push notification service for websites and mobile applications. OneSignal supports all major native and mobile platforms by providing dedicated SDKs for each platform, a RESTful server API, and a dashboard.

Engati

Engati

It is a free chatbot platform to build bots quickly without any coding required. It allows you to build, manage, integrate, train, analyse and publish your personalized bot in a matter of minutes.

Dialogflow

Dialogflow

Give users new ways to interact with your product by building engaging voice and text-based conversational apps.

Telegram Bot API

Telegram Bot API

Bots are third-party applications that run inside Telegram. Users can interact with bots by sending them messages, commands and inline requests. You control your bots using HTTPS requests to our bot API.

Botpress

Botpress

Botpress is an open-source bot creation tool written in TypeScript. It is powered by a rich set of open-source modules built by the community. We like to say that Botpress is like the WordPress of bots; anyone can create and reuse other peo

Urban Airship

Urban Airship

We’ve built the smartest, most aware, precise, easy-to-use, scalable, secure and powerful push messaging platform on the planet. Our Push messaging platform leverages all that is unique about mobile as a channel, and that lights the spark to create meaningful and valuable mobile experiences. We help put your app in front of your users at the right time, and in the right place to drive usage and brand engagement.

Google Cloud Messaging

Google Cloud Messaging

Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a free service that enables developers to send messages between servers and client apps. This includes downstream messages from servers to client apps, and upstream messages from client apps to servers.

Microsoft Bot Framework

Microsoft Bot Framework

The Microsoft Bot Framework provides just what you need to build and connect intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail and other popular services.

Amazon Lex

Amazon Lex

Lex provides the advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions.

Firebase Cloud Messaging

Firebase Cloud Messaging

It is a cross-platform messaging solution that lets you reliably deliver messages at no cost. You can notify a client app that new email or other data is available to sync. You can send notification messages to drive user re-engagement and retention. For use cases such as instant messaging, a message can transfer a payload of up to 4KB to a client app.

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