From the course: Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers

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Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Simple Notification Service (SNS)

- Another really useful service with AWS is SNS, simple notification service. So let's go to that now. I'm going to type in SNS up in the filter bar and open that in a new tab. Now, a simple notification service can have topics and can have subscribers to those topics. So we can send out the messages to Lambda or SQS, or whatever other services are subscribing to that topic. What I actually use SNS for, more often, is sending out push notifications or texts and emails, but it can do both and it does a great job of it. So let's create a topic now and then we'll subscribe to it from our SQS queue. So I'm going to click on topics and I'm going to create a topic. I'm going to create just a standard topic as we talked about as with SQS, it should be best effort, at least once, message delivery. And I'm going to name this topic PollTopic. We can leave all the other defaults as they are and then we just click create topic. And…

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