• direct integration

  

• Pub / Sub

  

• "event producer" only sends message to one SNS topic

• each subscriber to the topic will get all the messages (new feature to filter messages)

• up to 10,000,000 subscriptions per topic

• 100,000 topics limit

• subscribers can be:

  • SQS
  • HTTP/HTTPS (with delivery retries - how many times)
  • Lambda
  • Emails
  • SMS messages
  • Mobile Notifications

• integrate with other AWS services:

  • CloudWatch (for alarms)
  • ASG notifications
  • S3 (on bucket event)
  • CloudFormation (state change ⇒ failed to build)
  • ...

• Topic Publish (within AWS server - using the SDK)

  • create a topic
  • create a subscription
  • publish to the topic

• direct publish (for mobile apps SDK)

  • create a platform app
  • create a platform endpoint
  • publish to platform endpoint

SNS + SQS: Fan Out

• push once in SNS, receive in many SQS
• No data loss
• Ability to add receivers of data later (when number of messages increase, can add consumer to handle)
• SQS allows for delayed processing
• SQS allows for retries of work