Category: Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

This post shows how to build a WhatsApp assistant that responds instantly. We show you how to build a real estate assistant powered by AI that delivers property discovery, home loan pre-approval, and site visit booking entirely within WhatsApp. The solution uses the Strands Agents SDK to orchestrate specialized AI agents on Amazon Bedrock, with AWS End User Messaging Social for WhatsApp integration. The serverless backend runs on AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB.

This post shares practical lessons from a real-world migration of a global gaming SMS platform from Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to AWS End User Messaging. You’ll learn how to use resource sharing to avoid months of re-registration, how to build a country inventory that survives regulatory changes, and how to avoid the operational pitfalls that surface only when you migrate production traffic across accounts.

In this post, we walk through the setting up AWS End User Messaging SMS, covering 12 configuration steps from compliance through phased traffic migration. The guide to SMS short codes with AWS End User Messaging covers the application and registration process up through provisioning. This post picks up from that point and provides an operational readiness walkthrough that takes you from “Active” status to confidently sending your first production message, including a final validation step to confirm readiness.

Today, we’re sharing a solution that brings AWS Budgets alerts directly to your WhatsApp using AWS End User Messaging—enabling real-time cost awareness and faster response to budget thresholds wherever you are.

Managing AWS End User Messaging SMS registrations can be challenging, especially when dealing with multiple registrations in various states and countries. This post introduces an automated monitoring solution that helps you stay on top of your registration statuses. By leveraging AWS Lambda, EventBridge, and Simple Email Service (SES), you’ll create a system that provides regular […]

I. Introduction AWS End User Messaging has made updates to how it handles SMS origination identities. These changes impact Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) and Amazon Pinpoint, which allow sending SMS messages. The updates aim to provide security, flexibility, and control over SMS messaging for AWS users. For companies and developers using AWS for sending […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]