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Amazon SNS pros and cons

Vendor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4.5 out of 5
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Elvis Rozario
Senior Backend Engineer at Freightbro
Nov 11, 2020
The mobile push notifications are the most valuable. Previously, we used to use Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) for this functionality. It is a Google service for sending push notifications. Android did not have a good service for sending push notifications, but now, Amazon SNS integrates with FCM. Under the road, it is actually using FCM, but we can see all the metrics on our AW service itself, which makes it a lot easier instead of using a third-party service for this particular functionality.
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Jatinder Arora
Co-Founder at NetScapeLabs
Nov 9, 2020
Stability has been good for us. It is quite high.
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Ahsan Ali
Senior Software Engineer at etura
Nov 25, 2020
Push notifications are the most valuable. I have mostly used push notifications for my system. Amazon SNS supports all devices for push notification services. It supports iOS, Android, and Windows notifications. It provides reliable push notification services. We have queues, and we can track which notifications have failed or had some issues. We can then figure out the issue. We can also debug the issue because of which our push notification didn't reach the end users.
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Subramanian Velladurai
Director at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 23, 2022
It's a simple communication service that allows us to communicate with customers.
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Erkut Bas
Software Specialist at Binghamton University
Jul 18, 2022
The integration between the features is excellent.
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Sai Prasad Venugopal
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 3, 2023
The best aspect of this solution is its simplicity. We just have to create topics and can have as many subscriptions as we want under any topic we create.
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Vice President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 10, 2023
We have found the key feature of this solution to be the simplicity of sending out notifications.
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Bireshwar Adhikary
Senior Consultant at ATOS
Jan 20, 2023
Messages easily flow from publisher or application to subscriber.
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Padmanesh NC
Big Data Solution Architect - Spatial Data Specialist at SCIERA, INC
Aug 10, 2023
Amazon SNS has SMS notifications as well. Most of the other solutions have only email notifications.
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Adalberto Barbosa Da Costa Lobato
Cloud Solutions Architect at gwcloud.company
Sep 11, 2023
The most valuable feature of Amazon SNS is speed. It's really fast.
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Elvis Rozario
Senior Backend Engineer at Freightbro
Nov 11, 2020
A major issue with AWS as a whole is that it has a lot of services that do the same thing, and people get confused about which one to use in which scenario. Previously, we used to use SNS for connecting microservices. SNS has around six types of subscribers. We can subscribe to Lambda, HTTP, HTTPS, SMS, email, and push notifications. We used to use HTTP endpoints and Lambda for connecting to microservice systems. Now we have something called EventBridge, which actually does that for you. For connecting to services, we should just use EventBridge rather than SQS, SNS. I hear a lot of complaints from people wherein they do not understand when to use EventBridge and when to use SQS, SNS. They can remove these features so that it doesn't confuse users about when to use SQS, SNS, or EventBridge.
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Jatinder Arora
Co-Founder at NetScapeLabs
Nov 9, 2020
In terms of improvement, I would like to have better customer support for SNS. We can then manage it very easily.
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Ahsan Ali
Senior Software Engineer at etura
Nov 25, 2020
I recently worked with Firebase, and it provides an option to create a marketing campaign with a title and a specific image to inform our audience about something. We just design the campaign and then use the push notifications. It would be good if Amazon also adds a similar feature.
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Subramanian Velladurai
Director at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 23, 2022
There could be more integration with other solutions.
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Erkut Bas - PeerSpot reviewer
Erkut Bas
Software Specialist at Binghamton University
Jul 18, 2022
There needs to be more documentation on the integration with different platforms.
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Sai Prasad Venugopal
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 3, 2023
We would like to have the option when someone leaves the organization or moves to another team, to remove notifications. Currently this needs to be done manually by the company admin.
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Vice President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 10, 2023
We would like the integration with third party applications to be improved within this solution.
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Bireshwar Adhikary - PeerSpot reviewer
Bireshwar Adhikary
Senior Consultant at ATOS
Jan 20, 2023
Messages should flow through a gateway without the need for a mediator.
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Padmanesh NC - PeerSpot reviewer
Padmanesh NC
Big Data Solution Architect - Spatial Data Specialist at SCIERA, INC
Aug 10, 2023
The tool needs to have direct integration with AvPro.
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Adalberto Barbosa Da Costa Lobato - PeerSpot reviewer
Adalberto Barbosa Da Costa Lobato
Cloud Solutions Architect at gwcloud.company
Sep 11, 2023
In future releases, I want to see if the platforms that SMS can reach. It would be a good way to improve it. More platforms to be able to use it.
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