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Getting Started with Amazon SNS

Steps for Amazon Amazon SNS

1

Enter the Amazon SNS Console

Instantly get access to the AWS Free Tier.

2

Quickly set up and use SNS resources

Learn more with Amazon SNS tutorials.

3

Send a message to a SNS topic

Publish and subscribe to topics in minutes.

10-minute tutorials

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Amazon SNS & SQS

Send Fanout Event Notifications with Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS

In this tutorial, you will implement a fanout messaging scenario using Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). In this scenario, messages are "pushed" to multiple subscribers, which eliminates the need to periodically check or poll for updates and enables parallel asynchronous processing of the message by the subscribers.

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Amazon SNS

Publish Amazon SNS messages privately with AWS PrivateLink

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to publish messages to an Amazon SNS topic while keeping the messages secure in a private network.

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Amazon SNS

Filter Messages Published to Topics

In this tutorial, you will learn how to leverage the message filtering feature of Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). The message filter feature enables endpoints subscribed to an SNS topic to receive only the subset of topic messages it is interested in.

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