Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Reviews
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Pros and cons
Pros
- Cloud Storage
- Cost Saving
- Scalability
- Security Protection
- Ease of Use
- Integrations
Cons
- Complexity Issues
- Learning Curve
- Complexity
- Expensive
- Slow Performance
- Storage Limitations
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Key stats
Adoption by company size
| Segment | Share of reviews |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 44.4% |
| Mid-Market | 30.0% |
| Enterprise | 25.6% |
Quarterly history
| Quarter | Reviews | Star rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q2 | 1 | 4.5 |
| 2026 Q1 | 1 | 5.0 |
| 2026 Q2 | 3 | 4.7 |
Satisfaction ratings
What reviewers say
Real-Time Alerts and Event-Driven Notifications Made Easy with Amazon Simple Notification Services
“We use Amazon Simple Notification Services for real-time messaging and event-driven communication across systems. We mainly use SNS to send notifications to multiple subscribers simultaneously. It helps us automate alerts for pipeline failures, as well as notifications upon job c”
Easy Real-Time Notifications with Seamless AWS SNS Integrations
“AWS SNS made it very easy to send real-time notifications across multiple endpoints like email, SMS, and Lambda functions from a single topic. The integration with other AWS services like SQS and Lambda was seamless, and setting up topic subscriptions took very little time”
Easy Push & Email Notifications With Open Tracking
“I have used this service to send the notification via push notification as well as email notification on my emails that these person have opened the email as well as open our app so we can track the things easily in it and get notified for it”