Amazon SNS vs Avada Software Infrared360 comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Avada Software are both solutions in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.0, while Avada Software is ranked #12. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 5.9% mindshare in MOM, compared to Avada Software’s 2.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Avada Software users who would recommend it.

Amazon SNS

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon SNS and Avada Software Infrared360 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Amazon SNS vs. Avada Software Infrared360 Report (Updated: July 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon SNS

Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

4th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Avada Software Infrared360

Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

12th

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (74th), Business Activity Monitoring (4th), Server Monitoring (42nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Amazon SNS is 5.9%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Avada Software Infrared360 is 2.5%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Bireshwar Adhikary

Senior Consultant at ATOS

The best service available with easy message flow and a pay-as-you-go model

Messages easily flow from publisher or application to subscriber. You can also flow messages from publisher to SNS with an https-like mediator. Amazon SQS is there, so message queue services are also there. The message transports to the service provider such as Redshift, the SQ bucket, Teams, Splunk, or any other message service. The solution has no up-front costs. Messages flow much more quickly than in the past. They used to run a bit late after being published.

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Walter Kuhn

ICT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Role-based access to queues, giving us more insights into problems

* We now have the possibility of getting a central perspective on all tenants. * We have defined access roles for developers. Therefore, they can 'read in' their queues on the development and testing stages. With special roles, they may also write. This improves our development and testing cycle. * For operative systems, we have restricted the access. Still, selected people can react if something is happening in the various BOQs.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It's a simple communication service that allows us to communicate with customers."

"The initial setup of Amazon SNS was easy."

"The integration between the features is excellent."

"Messages easily flow from publisher or application to subscriber."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon SNS is speed. It's really fast."

"The mobile push notifications are the most valuable. Previously, we used to use Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) for this functionality. It is a Google service for sending push notifications. Android did not have a good service for sending push notifications, but now, Amazon SNS integrates with FCM. Under the road, it is actually using FCM, but we can see all the metrics on our AW service itself, which makes it a lot easier instead of using a third-party service for this particular functionality."

"We have found the key feature of this solution to be the simplicity of sending out notifications."

"Push notifications are the most valuable. I have mostly used push notifications for my system. Amazon SNS supports all devices for push notification services. It supports iOS, Android, and Windows notifications. It provides reliable push notification services. We have queues, and we can track which notifications have failed or had some issues. We can then figure out the issue. We can also debug the issue because of which our push notification didn't reach the end users."

More Amazon SNS pros

"Monitoring that ties into our incident management system"

"The administration piece makes it very easy to do MQ administration. It gives us a lot more flexibility and capabilities."

"It's what we use for monitoring our MQ system, so the features that they provide are just really, really good."

"It has role-based access to queues, giving us more insights into problems."

"It allows non-technical users to inspect their individual components within the total infrastructure without disturbing other components and without bothering the technical teams."

"We have easily created use case testing harnesses for specific flows that incorporate various message types."

Cons

"The tool needs to have direct integration with AvPro."

"A major issue with AWS as a whole is that it has a lot of services that do the same thing, and people get confused about which one to use in which scenario. Previously, we used to use SNS for connecting microservices. SNS has around six types of subscribers. We can subscribe to Lambda, HTTP, HTTPS, SMS, email, and push notifications. We used to use HTTP endpoints and Lambda for connecting to microservice systems. Now we have something called EventBridge, which actually does that for you. For connecting to services, we should just use EventBridge rather than SQS, SNS. I hear a lot of complaints from people wherein they do not understand when to use EventBridge and when to use SQS, SNS. They can remove these features so that it doesn't confuse users about when to use SQS, SNS, or EventBridge."

"We would like the integration with third party applications to be improved within this solution."

"We would like to have the option when someone leaves the organization or moves to another team, to remove notifications. Currently this needs to be done manually by the company admin."

"In terms of improvement, I would like to have better customer support for SNS. We can then manage it very easily."

"There could be more integration with other solutions."

"Messages should flow through a gateway without the need for a mediator."

"There needs to be more documentation on the integration with different platforms."

More Amazon SNS cons

"One area where they could improve is with their documentation. Some sections are not up to date with new release information and providing additional samples in some areas would be very helpful."

"The user interface could be sexier and more ergonomic. The competing products have similar problems."

"We are still working with the FTE/MFT subscription monitoring and reporting functionality. That is an area in which we would like to see further development taking place."

"We desire a dashboard that could accumulate BOQ lengths per tenant on one screen for all tenants."

"The UI can be cumbersome - but we are still using the Viper interface and we have not had the time to check out the Alloy interface which is supposed to be much improved."

"Some of the graphics in the interface could be improved. It's pretty basic. Some interfaces are not up to what you're used to seeing on other, more Windows-like tools."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Their pricing is competitive. I would rate the cost four out of five."

"The pricing of push notifications and everything is quite fair. If you are using FCM under the hood, it is completely free. When you are using push notification on SMS, it is just a nominal price that you need to pay. SMS services are a lot more costly. It is because we don't have proper providers in India. That's why it gets a lot more costly in terms of SMS. This is the reason why we don't use SMS services from SNS itself. We use other third-party services like SMS Horizon. We use a third-party service for email services. It is almost free. It is just around $1 a month. Configuring Lambda is also quite cheap. You only pay for the Lambda usage. You don't pay for SNS itself."

"The pricing is very cheap."

"Amazon SNS is cheap and I would rate it a three out of ten. The pricing is usage-based."

"The solution has no up-front costs because you pay based on the number of messages you publish."

"It is the cheapest solution in the market. It is on a monthly basis. After a month, you are build based on your usage. There are no additional costs to the standard licensing fees."

"One can use the tool for free."

"Start small, then increase licensing later as per your demand."

"Because the licensing is at the QMGR level, you need to have at least a small cushion of licenses for occasional enterprise needs."

"Our internal budget calculation model incorporates the pricing per endpoint for any new projects. However, as our footprint for distributed queue managers shrinks as part of our shared middleware hub deployment, the initial licensing and support costs have been reduced over the last five years."

"Avada Software's licensing metric is very good because the license fees are based on the number of connections (which have not increased for us very much over the years) rather than the CPU processing power (which increases significantly whenever our hardware is upgraded) or the number of users (which has increased for us a lot since our original purchase)."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

24%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Media Company

Financial Services Firm

37%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon SNS?

The most valuable feature of Amazon SNS is speed. It's really fast.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon SNS?

The pricing is very cheap.

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What needs improvement with Amazon SNS?

In future releases, I want to see if the platforms that SMS can reach. It would be a good way to improve it. More platforms to be able to use it.

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Overview

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.

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).

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Avada Software specializes in Enterprise Middleware solutions. Founded by some pioneers in SOA, MQ and J2EE technology, Avada’s Flagship product, Infrared360, is a holistic & innovative private cloud enabled portal providing self-service administration, monitoring, load testing, auditing & statistical reporting for Enterprise Middleware including IBM’s middleware stack of MQ, IIB (message broker), WAS, and Datapower, as well as other applications servers such as JBoss, TC Server, Weblogic, and other messaging technologies such as Tibco EMS and Kafka*.

Accessed via any web browser on any device, Infrared360 is a single web application, yet scales to 2500+ endpoints without deploying anything (no agents, no scripts) to those endpoints.

Using trusted ‘spaces’ and delegated visibility and control, the portal uniquely provides different business units or even different application users virtual ‘spaces’ in which to work. Within those spaces are only the objects and resources the user has been granted visibility. Role policy dictates permissions on those resources.

It is the ONLY Enterprise Messaging Solution with a built in SOA engine that lets you leverage internal and external services for managing and correcting problems within your middleware messaging environment.

*Kafka coming soon

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Sample Customers

PlayOn! Sports, NASA, Change Healthcare, FCBarcelona

USBank, Southwest Airlines, Visiting Nurse Services of New York, Aon Hewitt, Parker Hannifin, Cantonal Bank of Zurich (ZKB), Hagemeyer NA, and many others

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