Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Developer Guide

by Amazon Web Services

NOTE – A new version of the Amazon Simple Notification Service Developer Guide is available at This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). This developer guide walks you through the steps of signing up for Amazon Web Services, creating a topic, subscribing a topic, and publishing a topic in Amazon SNS. Amazon SNS is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and send notifications from the cloud. It provides developers with a highly scalable, flexible, and cost-effective capability to publish messages from an application and immediately deliver them to subscribers or other applications. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at

323 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 6, 2012