Pub/sub, SMS, email, and mobile push notifications

Reduce Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) costs with these tips

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) cost saving tips

Optimize your Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) costs with these tips

Right-size SNS Usage

Analyze usage patterns and adjust your SNS resources. SNS charges based on usage, so reconfigure number of topics, subscriptions and messages based on needs.

Use SNS Features Wisely

Utilize SNS features like message filtering and archiving to optimize costs. Filtering can prevent unnecessary message deliveries. Archiving stores messages at lower costs.

Clean Up SNS Configuration

Regularly review and delete unused SNS topics, subscriptions and resources to avoid unnecessary charges. The AWS documentation provides further cost-reducing advice.

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Service information & pricing

About Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

About Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a Pub/Sub service for application and customer messaging. It facilitates push-based messaging between systems and customer communication via SMS, notifications, and email. Amazon SNS offers features like FIFO messaging, encrypted messages, event fanning from over 60 AWS services, and supports SMS delivery in 240+ countries.

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) pricing

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) costs depend on usage; there are no upfront or long-term contract fees. The pricing hinges on the type of topic used (Standard or FIFO), the frequency of monthly API requests, and the number of deliveries to varying endpoints (costs vary by type). The first 1 million Amazon SNS requests/month are free. A 64KB published data chunk equals one request. Fees are tabulated and billed monthly.

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