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What Does Amazon Simple Notification Service Mean?

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a provision in the AWS service suite for enabling messaging in decoupled microservices, serverless computing setups, and other distributed systems. The system has “publishers” and “subscribers” which allows senders to “fan out” messaging to an audience (user base) through these end-to-end systems.

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Techopedia Explains Amazon Simple Notification Service

In a way, Amazon SNS functions as a “standalone” messaging service for these types of systems which may not have their own resident messaging functionality. Push notifications, for instance, can be embedded into serverless applications or distributed systems through SNS messaging. AWS SNS promises “many to many” broadcasting on a unique cloud model. Supported protocols include Amazon SQS, HTTP/S, email, SMS, and AWS Lambda, Amazon’s serverless solution.

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ??a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.

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