About

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service from AWS that helps applications send notifications and distribute events at scale.

It supports application-to-application messaging for decoupling distributed systems, as well as application-to-person messaging through SMS, push notifications, and email. The service also includes capabilities for message filtering, batching, ordering, deduplication, archiving, replay, delivery retries, and dead-letter queues.

  • Fully managed pub/sub messaging for distributed applications
  • Application-to-application and application-to-person notifications
  • Standard and FIFO topics for different messaging patterns
  • Message filtering, batching, ordering, and deduplication
  • Archiving, replay, retries, and dead-letter queue support
  • SMS delivery to customers in 200+ countries
  • Integration with AWS services, KMS, and PrivateLink

What's included in the free tier

  • Free usage tier details for Amazon SNS are not explicitly listed in the provided content.
  • The page states new AWS customers receive 15 GB of data transfer out each month across all AWS services for one year.
  • Data transferred into Amazon SNS is free of charge.
  • Data transferred between Amazon SNS and Amazon EC2 within a single region is free of charge.