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Amazon SNS vs Google Cloud Messaging vs OneSignal: What are the differences?
Amazon SNS (Amazon Simple Notification Service), Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), and OneSignal are all messaging platforms that allow developers to send push notifications to users. Each platform has its own set of features and capabilities.
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Message Capacity:
- Amazon SNS: Supports sending messages to millions of devices simultaneously.
- Google Cloud Messaging: Supports sending messages to thousands of devices per second.
- OneSignal: Supports sending messages to millions of devices simultaneously.
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Cross-Platform Availability:
- Amazon SNS: Supports multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, Windows, and more.
- Google Cloud Messaging: Primarily focused on Android devices, but also supports iOS and Chrome.
- OneSignal: Supports multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, Windows, and more.
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Message Types:
- Amazon SNS: Supports sending both push notifications and SMS messages.
- Google Cloud Messaging: Designed specifically for push notifications.
- OneSignal: Supports sending both push notifications and SMS messages.
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Delivery Reliability:
- Amazon SNS: Offers high delivery success rates with multiple retries and error handling mechanisms.
- Google Cloud Messaging: Provides reliable message delivery with options for retries and collapsing messages.
- OneSignal: Offers high delivery success rates with multiple retries and error handling mechanisms.
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Message Personalization:
- Amazon SNS: Allows for custom data to be included with each message, enabling personalization.
- Google Cloud Messaging: Supports custom data payloads for personalization.
- OneSignal: Allows for custom data to be included with each message, enabling personalization.
In Summary, Amazon SNS, Google Cloud Messaging, and OneSignal are messaging platforms with differences in message capacity, cross-platform availability, message types, delivery reliability, and message personalization capabilities.
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- Low cost12
- Supports multi subscribers6
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- Free9
- Scalable6
- Easy setup4
- Easy iOS setup2
- IOS Support1
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- Free of cost28
- More parametrable22
- Simple and Easy To Use. Well Documented :)17
- Device to device13
- Simple12
- Many Platforms9
- Great support9
- Free8
- Flexibility in working with web, android and iOS4
- Phonegap / Cordova / Ionic starters4
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What is Amazon SNS?
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.
What is 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.
What is 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.
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What are some alternatives to Amazon SNS, Google Cloud Messaging, and OneSignal?
Amazon Pinpoint
Amazon Pinpoint makes it easy to run targeted campaigns to drive user engagement in mobile apps. Amazon Pinpoint helps you understand user behavior, define which users to target, determine which messages to send, schedule the best time to deliver the messages, and then track the results of your campaign.
Twilio
Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs.
Amazon MQ
Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Amazon SES
Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2.