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.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Amazon SNS | 5.4% |
| IBM MQ | 26.5% |
| PubSub+ Platform | 16.0% |
| Other | 52.1% |
| Type | Title | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) | Aug 27, 2025 | Download |
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| Comparison | Amazon SNS vs IBM MQ | Aug 27, 2025 | Download |
| Comparison | Amazon SNS vs PubSub+ Platform | Aug 27, 2025 | Download |
| Comparison | Amazon SNS vs Amazon EventBridge | Aug 27, 2025 | Download |
| Title | Rating | Mindshare | Recommending | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM MQ | 4.2 | 26.5% | 94% | 170 interviewsAdd to research |
| PubSub+ Platform | 4.3 | 16.0% | 100% | 17 interviewsAdd to research |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 1 |
| Large Enterprise | 4 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 17 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 1 |
| Large Enterprise | 39 |
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).
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Consultant at ATOS | 4.0 | Our company uses Amazon SNS as middleware for message delivery from publishers to subscribers, enhancing speed without upfront costs. Although effective, it could benefit from improved message flow through a security gateway without a mediator. |
| Senior Software Engineer at Saama | 4.0 | I find Amazon SNS valuable for server notifications and log exports, but the configuration process is time-consuming and could benefit from a bulk upload feature. Improvements in setup efficiency would enhance its usefulness in my organization. |
| Cloud Solutions Architect at gwcloud.company | 5.0 | I use Amazon SNS for device notifications due to its impressive speed. While it generates ROI, I wish it could reach more SMS platforms. I haven't used or considered other solutions, and my deployment is not tied to a specific cloud provider. |
| Software Specialist at Binghamton University | 4.0 | No summary available |
| Site Reliability Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees | 5.0 | We use Amazon SNS for sending notifications to various endpoints like Slack channels and email lists, benefiting from its simplicity in creating topics and subscriptions. However, manual notification management and alert customization need improvement for better efficiency. |
| Senior Software Engineer at etura | 5.0 | No summary available |
| Co-Founder at NetScapeLabs | 4.5 | No summary available |
| Senior Backend Engineer at Freightbro | 4.5 | No summary available |
