Amazon SNS vs PubSub+ Platform comparison

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Solace are both solutions in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0, while Solace is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.6. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 5.3% mindshare in MOM, compared to Solace’s 12.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Solace users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon SNS and PubSub+ Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon SNS

Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

6th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

PubSub+ Platform

Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Message Queue (MQ) Software (7th), Event Monitoring (9th), Streaming Analytics (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Amazon SNS is 5.3%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PubSub+ Platform is 12.8%, down from 15.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
PubSub+ Platform	12.8%
Amazon SNS	5.3%
Other	81.9%

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Featured Reviews

HarshalJethwa

Cloud Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Event-driven messaging has improved real-time notifications and incident response

In my experience, the best features Amazon SNS offers include the ability to create an event-driven architecture and services, as well as real-time notifications.When I mention real-time capabilities and integration with other AWS services, specific integrations or real-time features that stand out most to me are S3 bucket events including creating a bucket, creating an object, updating an object, modifying an object, and deleting an object. Additionally, with CloudWatch alarms, when I get an alarm on CloudWatch, it will notify me via email using Amazon SNS. The same applies to application events. Amazon SNS has impacted my organization positively because using it, we are able to create an event-driven architecture and send notifications for events or incidents. Amazon SNS has helped my team respond faster, improved reliability, and saved time. Specifically, because of it, we are able to identify events as soon as possible. It saves our time and we can also process them as soon as possible.

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Deepankar Bbhowmick

Integration Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Messaging design has become visual and reliable and now supports fast microservice communication

The unique functions I appreciate about PubSub+ Platform are that it allows me to design my solution in a graphical manner, which is not available in many other products, and the design can also be pushed to the actual infrastructure layer, making it quite advantageous. Mesh technology is useful in scenarios where different geographies have to be connected, although such situations are not commonly found. It is beneficial but not a super-used feature of PubSub+ Platform. The event replay function is quite mature in PubSub+ Platform, allowing me to replay messages that are days in the past, which is a good feature. The main benefits PubSub+ Platform provides for the end-user include building a robust and scalable system with very low network latency, which improves the customer experience, whether using mobile phones or applications. This type of messaging framework is extremely important, and Solace is a very good product in that space. Nowadays, most applications are built using microservices technology, with small microservices interchanging messages via PubSub+ Platform. Without it, realizing a scalable system would not be possible; for example, one cannot have Netflix or similar services that require quick data transit and a good user experience, ensuring that data cannot be lost in transit. The analytics part of PubSub+ Platform is quite useful as it can connect with many analytical software tools, mainly for analysis of system logs, such as Splunk, DataDog, or Prometheus. It has the flexibility to connect with any of these and supports OpenTelemetry, which is not available in many other products, making traceability very easy. I can see how a message travels from a source system to the target system, end-to-end, along with what happens to that message along the path, making the analytics quite good.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It's a simple communication service that allows us to communicate with customers."

"Messages easily flow from publisher or application to subscriber."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon SNS is speed. It's really fast."

"Amazon SNS has SMS notifications as well. Most of the other solutions have only email notifications."

"We have found the key feature of this solution to be the simplicity of sending out notifications."

"Overall, I am very happy with this service."

"We see ROI because we use the features that help us and make our product work better."

"Stability has been good for us. It is quite high."

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"The way we can replicate information and send it to several subscribers is most valuable. It can be used for any kind of business where you've got multiple users who need information. Any company, such as LinkedIn, with a huge number of subscribers and any business, such as publishing, supermarket, airline, or shipping can use it."

"In my assessment of Solace against other products — as I was responsible for evaluating various products and bringing the right tool into companies in the past — I worked with multiple platforms like RabbitMQ, Confluent, Kafka, and various other tools in the market. But I found the event mesh capability to be a very interesting as well as fulfilling capability, towards what we want to achieve from a digital-integration-strategy point of view... It's distributed, yet it is intelligently connected. It can also span and I can plug and play any number of brokers into the event mesh, so it's a great deal. That's a differentiator."

"The way we can replicate information and send it to several subscribers is most valuable."

"Some valuable features include reconnecting topics, placing queues, and direct connections to MongoDB. The platform provides a dashboard to monitor the status of messages, such as how many have been processed or delivered, which is helpful for tracking performance."

"The most useful features has been the WAN optimization and probably the HybridEdge, which requires some third-party adapters or plugins. The idea that we can position Solace as a protocol-agnostic message transport fabric is key to our company having all manners of asynchronous messaging protocols from MQ, Kafka, JMS, etc. I really like the WAN optimization: Send once over a WAN, then distribute locally as many times as there are subscribers."

"From my pursuit of the secret sauce, I found that Solace really is, for us, the service and the partnership that we have with the company, having the level of expertise and the subject matter knowledge available to us is second to none."

"The most valuable feature of PubSub+ Event Broker is the scaling integration. Prior to using the solution, it was done manually with a file, and it can be done instantly live."

"The best features of PubSub+ Platform include being highly scalable, allowing us to handle billions and billions of events, and configuring and managing PubSub+ Platform is straightforward and simple while being highly reliable."

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Cons

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"There needs to be more documentation on the integration with different platforms."

"I believe Amazon SNS could be improved because when you integrate it, you also need SQS, so it is a two-service job."

"Messages should flow through a gateway without the need for a mediator."

"We would like the integration with third party applications to be improved within this solution."

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"We have requested to be able to get into the payload to do dynamic topic hierarchy building. A current workaround is using the message's header, where the business data can be put into this header and be used for a dynamic topic lookup. I want to see this in action when there are a couple of hundred cases live. E.g., how does it perform? From an administration perspective, is the ease of use there?"

"Some of the feature's gaps with some of the open-source vendors have been closed in a lot of ways. Being more agile and addressing those earlier could be an area for improvement."

"I heard that it is quite expensive compared to Kafka."

"The product should allow third-party agents to be installed. Currently, it is quite proprietary."

"It could be cheaper. It could also have easier usage. It is a brilliant product, but it is quite complex to use."

"If you create one event in the past, you cannot resend it."

"Make it open source :-) with limited features so that this is not a barrier for using the technology in some places where they will only use open source technology despite then just paying for support (and paid features) on any used open source technology in the organization, as its a misnomer in my view the amount of large companies claiming to only use open source but then using products that are paid versions with additional features included."

"The ease of management could be approved. The GUI is very good, but to configure and manage these devices programmatically in the software version is not easy."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is very cheap."

"It is the cheapest solution in the market. It is on a monthly basis. After a month, you are build based on your usage. There are no additional costs to the standard licensing fees."

"The solution has no up-front costs because you pay based on the number of messages you publish."

"The pricing of push notifications and everything is quite fair. If you are using FCM under the hood, it is completely free. When you are using push notification on SMS, it is just a nominal price that you need to pay. SMS services are a lot more costly. It is because we don't have proper providers in India. That's why it gets a lot more costly in terms of SMS. This is the reason why we don't use SMS services from SNS itself. We use other third-party services like SMS Horizon. We use a third-party service for email services. It is almost free. It is just around $1 a month. Configuring Lambda is also quite cheap. You only pay for the Lambda usage. You don't pay for SNS itself."

"One can use the tool for free."

"Amazon SNS is cheap and I would rate it a three out of ten. The pricing is usage-based."

"Their pricing is competitive. I would rate the cost four out of five."

"Having a free version of the solution was a big, important part of our decision to go with it. This was the big driver for us to evaluate Solace. We started using it as the free version. When we felt comfortable with the free version, that is when we bought the enterprise version."

"It could be cheaper. Its licensing is on a yearly basis."

"We have been really happy with the product licensing rates. It has been free for us, up to a 100,000 transactions per second, and all we have to do is pay for support. Making their product available and accessible to us has not been a problem at all."

"I would rate the product's pricing a ten out of ten."

"The licensing is dependent on the volume that is flowing. If you go for their support services, it will cost some more money, but I think it is worth it, especially if you are just starting your journey."

"There are different tiers where you can choose what would work for you. As a customer, you need to know roughly how many messages a month you will use."

"The pricing and licensing were very transparent and well-communicated by our account manager."

"We are looking for something that will add value and fit for purpose. Freeware is good if you want to try something quickly without putting in much money. However, as far as our decision is concerned, I don't think it helps. At the end of the day, if we are convinced that a capability is required, we will ask for the funding. Then, when the funding is available, we will go for an enterprise solution only."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	15

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon SNS?

I believe Amazon SNS could be improved because when you integrate it, you also need SQS, so it is a two-service job. It does not provide filtering or advanced routing, there is no ordering guarante...

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What is your primary use case for Amazon SNS?

My main use case for Amazon SNS is that we use it for a messaging service with a publish-subscribe model to send messages to multiple subscribers.A specific example of how I use Amazon SNS for the ...

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What advice do you have for others considering Amazon SNS?

The features I find valuable in Amazon SNS are messaging, real-time notifications, and the ability to create an event-driven architecture. I give this product a rating of 8 out of 10.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PubSub+ Event Broker?

The pricing and setup cost of PubSub+ Platform is very seamless and reliable for medium and large-scale enterprises. For small-sized enterprises, it may be a higher cost, or they may be looking for...

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What needs improvement with PubSub+ Event Broker?

PubSub+ Platform could improve by simplifying some advanced configurations and providing better visualization for event flow. Some advanced configurations in PubSub+ Platform could be made simpler ...

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What is your primary use case for PubSub+ Event Broker?

PubSub+ Platform's main use case in our company is real-time data streaming using applications and API integrations. We are working on an IoT-based application, and our company handles most of the ...

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Also Known As

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PubSub+ Event Broker, PubSub+ Event Portal

Overview

Amazon SNS is a flexible notification service that enables real-time messaging and supports integration with AWS. Users benefit from its reliability, speed, and cross-platform compatibility for mobile push notifications.

Amazon SNS provides a robust platform for real-time communication across devices, making it a valuable tool for industries leveraging AWS services. With its event-driven architecture, SNS supports quick and efficient communication, especially across departments. It integrates seamlessly with AWS tools like Lambda, CloudWatch, and Redshift, while also providing SMS notifications at no upfront cost. Users can easily create topics and subscriptions across platforms, although some desire improved integrations with additional platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, enhanced documentation, and better bulk upload support.

What are the key features of Amazon SNS?

Mobile Push Notifications: Supports diverse devices for instant alerts and updates.
Event-driven Architecture: Facilitates automated notifications in response to events.
Integration with AWS: Works with AWS services such as Lambda and CloudWatch.
SMS Notifications: Offers cost-effective SMS messaging solutions.
Topic and Subscription Management: Simplifies setup across platforms.

What benefits do users experience with Amazon SNS?

Speed and Reliability: Swift notifications with dependable service.
Real-time Communication: Maintains quick information dissemination.
Metrics Visibility: Enhances AWS integration for better management.
Cost Efficiency: No upfront costs for SMS services.

Amazon SNS is widely used in various sectors for its capability to deliver real-time messages and notifications. Companies utilize SNS to ensure smooth inter-departmental communication, integrating it with tools like Lambda for automated response systems. Organizations implement SNS in slack channels and email lists, optimizing notification management in cloud-based environments.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

PubSub+ Platform is designed for real-time message publishing and outstanding interoperability. With features like intuitive administration and topic filtering, it offers both stability and high performance for scalable deployments across diverse scenarios.

PubSub+ Platform enhances data integration with its event mesh and seamless protocol compatibility, providing a comprehensive solution for organizations tracking shipments, generating reports, and managing transactions. Its granular topic filtering and WAN optimization ensure high utility in event-driven applications and cloud deployments. Users highlight the platform's intuitive administration and ease of management, though some seek improved integration with third-party tools and enhanced observability. Concerns include scalability for large payloads and training resource availability. Despite its interface complexity, PubSub+ remains valuable for trading and market data distribution.

What are the key features of PubSub+ Platform?

Real-time messaging: Facilitates seamless communication across platforms.
Flexible topic hierarchy: Supports dynamic topic taxonomy for efficient data management.
Event mesh: Enhances integration and interoperability with diverse protocols.
Intuitive administration: Simplifies system management and configuration.
WAN optimization: Ensures efficient connectivity for global deployment.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Messaging stability: Offers consistent performance in dynamic environments.
Scalability: Provides seamless expansion to accommodate growing data volumes.
Security: Maintains robust protection for sensitive information.
Support and configuration: Accessible, reliable support, and UI-driven setup streamline the management.

PubSub+ Platform is widely implemented for asynchronous messaging in industries like finance for trading and market data, logistics for shipment tracking, and tech operations management. It enables companies to modernize applications while ensuring data accuracy and efficiency across global systems.

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