Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Posts

Amazon SNS vs. Amazon SQS: A simple comparison

Amazon SNS vs. Amazon SQS: A simple comparison

When it comes to building a reliable and scalable cloud infrastructure, efficient communication between your cloud components is essential. There are many AWS services to help you build a reliable communication architecture for your solution. So, in this post, we will discuss and compare two old and popular AWS messaging services, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). These services allow you to easily exchange messages in a distributed system.

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Sending SMS Messages with Amazon SNS, AWS Lambda and Python

Did you know that you can send SMS messages easily with Amazon SNS without subscribing any phone numbers to a topic? Let’s say that you have verified phone numbers and you would like to send text messages to them assuming that they opted in for this. Besides, you would like to pay only when you send. You can use Amazon SNS SDK for Python and automate this process using AWS Lambda.

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