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An SNS overview

An SNS overview

- Simple Notification Service is a service that is similar to Simple Q Service in that you have producers of content and then consumers of content. SNS is slightly different in the way that it distributes that content. It's a proactive push rather than a pull from a consumer as you would see in SQS. Amazon says that Simple Notification Service provides fully managed pub sub messaging, SMS, email, and mobile push notifications. Pretty easy to use. It does this pub sub type of distribution. We have publishers of content or providers of content, and then subscribers to the various topics that are receiving that content. Here's an example of essentially what SNS does. You have a publisher of content. This could be an application, it could be a human with an email template, anything like that, any content that needs to be distributed. You would push that or publish it to an SNS topic and then subscribers to that topic would receive it. The various subscriber types you see here on the right…

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