Select your cookie preferences

We use essential cookies and similar tools that are necessary to provide our site and services. We use performance cookies to collect anonymous statistics, so we can understand how customers use our site and make improvements. Essential cookies cannot be deactivated, but you can choose “Customize” or “Decline” to decline performance cookies.

If you agree, AWS and approved third parties will also use cookies to provide useful site features, remember your preferences, and display relevant content, including relevant advertising. To accept or decline all non-essential cookies, choose “Accept” or “Decline.” To make more detailed choices, choose “Customize.”

Skip to main content

Benefits of Amazon Simple Notification Service

Deliver application-to-application (A2A) notifications to integrate and decouple distributed applications.

Learn more

Distribute application-to-person (A2P) notifications to your customers with SMS texts, push notifications, and email.

Learn more

Simplify your architecture and reduce costs with message filtering, batching, ordering, and deduplication.

Learn more

Increase message durability with archiving, replay, delivery retries, and dead-letter queues (DLQs).

Learn more

Use cases

Deliver messages in a strictly ordered, first in, first out (FIFO) manner to maintain accuracy and consistency across independent applications.

Learn more about message ordering and deduplication

Encrypt messages with AWS Key Management Service (KMS), ensure traffic privacy with AWS PrivateLink, and control access with resource policies and tags.

Learn more about security and message encryption

Fan out events across AWS categories, such as analytics, compute, containers, databases, IoT, machine learning (ML), security, and storage.

Learn more about event sources and destinations

Use worldwide SMS, with redundancy across providers. Set SMS origination identity with a sender ID, long code, short code, TFN, or 10DLC.

Learn more about SMS and mobile push notifications