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Category: Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Build a Two-Way Email-to-SMS Service with Amazon SES and Amazon End User Messaging
Introduction Businesses and organizations today struggle to effectively communicate with their customers, employees, or other stakeholders across the diverse range of digital channels they now use. One common problem arises when the requirement to exchange information quickly and reliably extends beyond traditional email. This issue challenges organizations where recipients lack immediate access to email. This […]
Streamline SMS and Emailing Marketing Compliance with Amazon Comprehend
In today’s digital landscape, businesses heavily rely on SMS and email campaigns to engage with customers and deliver timely, relevant messages. The shift towards digital marketing has increased customer engagement, accelerated delivery, and expanded personalization options. Email and SMS marketing is essential to digital strategies according to 44% of Chief Marketing Officers and they allocate […]
Build AI and ML into SMS for customer engagement
Create more engaging customer experiences with AI / ML-powered SMS communication Today’s customer expects the ability to engage with businesses through various communication channels like email, SMS, Push notifications, and in-app notifications when they have a question or need a problem resolved. SMS is one of the fastest growing communication channels, and we’ve seen that […]
Updated requirements for US toll-free phone numbers
Many Amazon Pinpoint customers use toll-free phone numbers to send messages to their customers in the United States. A toll-free number is a 10-digit number that begins with one of the following three-digit codes: 800, 888, 877, 866, 855, 844, or 833. You can use toll-free numbers to send both SMS and voice messages to […]
Queueing Amazon Pinpoint API calls to distribute SMS spikes
Organizations across industries and verticals have user bases spread around the globe. Amazon Pinpoint enables them to send SMS messages to a global audience through a single API endpoint, and the messages are routed to destination countries by the service. Amazon Pinpoint utilizes downstream SMS providers to deliver the messages and these SMS providers offer […]
Create a serverless feedback collector application using Amazon Pinpoint’s two-way SMS functionality
Introduction Two-way SMS communication is used by many companies to create interactive engagements with their customers. Traditional SMS notifications are one-way. While this is valid for many different use cases like one-time passwords (OTP) notifications and security notifications or reminders, some other use-cases may benefit from collecting information from the same channel. Two-way SMS allows […]
Creating a Seamless Handoff Between Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon Connect
Note: This post was written by Ilya Pupko, Senior Consultant for the AWS Digital User Engagement team. Time to read 5 minutes Learning level Intermediate (200) Services used Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon SNS, AWS Lambda, Amazon Lex, Amazon Connect Your customers deserve to have helpful communications with your brand, regardless of the channel that you use […]
Sending Push Notifications to iOS 13 Devices with Amazon SNS
Note: This post was written by Alan Chuang, a Senior Product Manager on the AWS Messaging team. On September 19, 2019, Apple released iOS 13. This update introduced changes to the Apple Push Notification service (APNs) that can impact your existing workloads. Amazon SNS has made some changes that ensure uninterrupted delivery of push notifications […]
The End of Google Cloud Messaging, and What it Means for Your Apps
On April 10, 2018, Google announced the deprecation of its Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) platform. Specifically, the GCM server and client APIs are deprecated and will be removed as soon as April 11, 2019. What does this mean for you and your applications that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) or Amazon Pinpoint? First, […]