Applications using Amazon SNS to send SMS can now be hosted in five new regions

Posted on: Oct 6, 2020

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send text messages (SMS) to mobile users can now host their application in the US East (Ohio), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Paris), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number, or multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone numbers to a topic and sending messages to the topic. Customers can send SMS text messages directly to mobile phone numbers in more than 200 countries.

With this expansion, Amazon SNS now supports SMS in 14 regions including US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

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