Getting Started with Amazon SNS

Step 1 - Sign up for an Amazon Web Services account
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Create an Amazon SNS Topic

Publish and subscribe to topics in minutes.

10-minute tutorials

Amazon SNS & SQS

Send Fanout Event Notifications with Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS

In this tutorial, you will implement a fanout messaging scenario using Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). In this scenario, messages are "pushed" to multiple subscribers, which eliminates the need to periodically check or poll for updates and enables parallel asynchronous processing of the message by the subscribers.

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Amazon SNS

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to publish messages to an Amazon SNS topic while keeping the messages secure in a private network.

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Amazon SNS

Filter Messages Published to Topics

In this tutorial, you will learn how to leverage the message filtering feature of Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). The message filter feature enables endpoints subscribed to an SNS topic to receive only the subset of topic messages it is interested in.

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Videos

This Is My Architecture videos feature AWS partners and customers, describing their innovative cloud architectures. Learn how Experian and Sophos use Amazon SNS in their own architectures. 

Experian: Event-Driven Pub-Sub with SNS and SQS
Sophos – Inbound & Outbound Traffic Inspection

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