Amazon SNS Reviews

Name: Amazon SNS
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.5 (11 reviews)

4.5 out of 5

11 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is Amazon SNS?

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a highly available, durable, secure, fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables you to decouple microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Amazon SNS provides topics for high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging. Using Amazon SNS topics, your publisher systems can fan out messages to a large number of subscriber endpoints for parallel processing, including Amazon SQS queues, AWS Lambda functions, and HTTP/S webhooks. Additionally, SNS can be used to fan out notifications to end users using mobile push, SMS, and email.

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Amazon SNS is the #5 ranked solution in top Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) solutions. PeerSpot users give Amazon SNS an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. Amazon SNS is most commonly compared to IBM MQ: Amazon SNS vs IBM MQ. Amazon SNS is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 67% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 28% of all views.

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Featured Amazon SNS reviews

Bireshwar Adhikary

Senior Consultant at ATOS

Messages easily flow from publisher or application to subscriber. You can also flow messages from publisher to SNS with an https-like mediator. Amazon SQS is there, so message queue services are also there. The message transports to the service provider such as Redshift, the SQ bucket, Teams, Splunk, or any other message service. The solution has no up-front costs. Messages flow much more quickly than in the past. They used to run a bit late after being published.

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Karthick Selvam

Senior Software Engineer at Saama

I don't mind if, in the future, Amazon SNS plans to provide any future configuration from AWS at a good price. In the future, there needs to be an update in Amazon SNS. If you are going to initiate Amazon SNS configuration and set up the tool in your organization, the configuration phase is carried out one by one. For example, if I get 50 servers, I have to go through the configuration phase and initiate the Amazon SNS topic, for which you need to provide a proper SNS configuration that could take a lot of time. I expect Amazon SNS to provide some capabilities to allow the configuration process to be done in a single script. Amazon SNS needs to provide a bulk uploading system to users in the future.

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Adalberto Barbosa Da Costa Lobato

Cloud Solutions Architect at gwcloud.company

It is a notification service for the device. If we need to notify anybody from your mobile or data form. We found that the notification is pretty much wireless. It happens with notifying customers, notifying themselves, everything. So That's how we have been it has been a company. It covers…

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Amazon SNS mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of Amazon SNS in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category stands at 6.6%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

PeerAnalyst reports based on Amazon SNS reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon SNS vs IBM MQ	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon SNS vs PubSub+ Platform	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon SNS vs Amazon EventBridge	Mar 4, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
IBM MQ	4.2	28.7%	94%	163 interviews Add to research
PubSub+ Platform	4.3	18.4%	100%	16 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The initial setup of Amazon SNS was easy."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"I expect Amazon SNS to provide some capabilities to allow the configuration process to be done in a single script."
"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."
"The tool needs to have direct integration with AvPro."

Pricing

"One can use the tool for free."
"The pricing is very cheap."
"Amazon SNS is cheap and I would rate it a three out of ten. The pricing is usage-based."

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Review data by company size

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Media Company

University

Healthcare Company

Educational Organization

Outsourcing Company

Non Profit

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Retailer

Comms Service Provider

Performing Arts

Insurance Company

Government

Logistics Company

Marketing Services Firm

Pharma/Biotech Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Consumer Goods Company

Sports Company

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You can get started with Amazon SNS in minutes by using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS Software Development Kit (SDK).