Front-End Web & Mobile
Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging
Introduction Earlier this week, Amazon SNS released worldwide SMS delivery and made it available in six AWS Regions. Worldwide SMS delivery means that you can now send SMS text messages directly to mobile phone numbers in more than 200 countries. Along with this expansion, SNS also enabled default “opt-in” of recipient phone numbers. This creates […]
Migrating from Parse Push to Amazon SNS
As you may already know, Parse announced that it will retire its operations by January 28, 2017. To help customers transition their Parse Core resources to another hosted provider like AWS, Parse open-sourced the Parse Server and published a migration guide. The guide, however, does not have a migration path for Parse Push and suggests […]
Invoking AWS Lambda functions via Amazon SNS
We released a new feature today for Amazon SNS that enables developers to perform custom message handling or publish messages to other AWS services by subscribing AWS Lambda functions to SNS topics. When a message is published to an SNS topic that has a Lambda function subscribed to it, the Lambda function is invoked with the payload of […]
Using the Delivery Status feature of Amazon SNS
Today we released a new feature for Amazon SNS that enables developers to collect feedback on successful and unsuccessful delivery attempts of their messages to mobile push notification platforms (Apple (APNS), Google (GCM), Amazon (ADM), Windows (WNS and MPNS) and Baidu). It also provides other important information such as dwell times in Amazon SNS. This information […]