Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Reviews & Product Details - Page 6

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

I love being about to broadcast messages without really caring too much about the subscribers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

JSON bodies vs not JSON bodies, attributes not always persisting depending on the subscriber. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

Quick and easy to integrate with other AWS services. I like how you have to subscribe to the service so that you or someone else can;t spam you with tons of notifications, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

I wish there was a way to preview the subscriptions prior to submitting. I have accidentaly made one where it spammed me hundreds of times a minute and had to be quick to turn it off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

The ability to send messages to a large group of people through multiple APIs. This makes it a cost effective way to get a message out via mobile or email. It seemed very reliable when used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

No major complaints when I used it, except maybe too many notifications. SNS works with so many subscribers that they work well with multiple PNS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

SNS is super easy to set up. Way easier than a mail server! You can be up and running in as little as 5 minutes... okay maybe like 10 to 15 if you want to make sure everything is setup correctly.... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

I dislike the fact that sometimes SNS is blocked by providers and you need to get your own elastic IP, but I wish they could give you more than 1. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

Others can subscribe to the topics and they will get messages pushed to them.

Messages can be pushed over HTTP or SMTP (email).

Using access control policies one can control who is allowed to subscribe to a topic.

The SNS system is redundant and retries message delivery if necessary.

The cost at volume is $0.06 per 100,000 messages published and $0.06 per 100,000 HTTP message pushes. Email pushes cost 33x more. Good news is the first 100,000 messages published and pushed are free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

Unfortunately, SNS does not use a standard messaging API - it's all proprietary. This is a major weakness of SQS, SNS, and SDB: Once you use the interface you're locked into using AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

Great for centralizing the sending of messages (SMS, eMail, PUSH...) in a single service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

Sometimes it's hard to debug and you have to create an email subscription just to receive and debug errors in sending notifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

The speed with which users receive notifications. Great adaptability of the service to your needs. Very reliable and stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

Not being able to send the same notification to multiple users at once, either they are sent one by one or you send it to a topic. In the case of iPhones, subscriptions are often randomly disabled, occasionally. It does not yet integrate notifications to the web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

The ease of use to connect multiple service together and run mulitiple instances at once.The ease of use when you are able to connect multiple services together when using this provides a great way to handle events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

There are limitations when it comes to the way the data is presented, especially when it comes to email. It would be good if we could easily apply formatting or dynamic behavior without using external code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

Easy to manage, scalable, reliable and lesser configurations to handle the service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

none in particular. SNS works great for my applications so far, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

The combination of Lambda, SNS, and SQS creates amazing messaging pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

Vendor lock in. It's hard to complain, and I'm all aboard the AWS train, but it is still at the back of my mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.