Amazon SNS does SMS

Written by Alastair Aitken

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Amazon SNS allows developers to send messages from applications and systems on a pay-what-you-use basis. As for pricing, sending via SMS is the most expensive option within Amazon SNS: although the first 100 SMS messages are free any subsequent messages are charged at a rate of $0.75 per 100, and data transfer charges also apply.

The addition of SMS to SNS brings the total numer of supported protocols to six:

  • Email
  • Email in JSON format
  • HTTP
  • HTTPS
  • Amazon SQS
  • SMS

Amazon SNS is still in beta so some restrictions apply.

  • http://twitter.com/jamingo Tony Jamous

    Great news, Amazon SNS now supports SMS in the USA. But what about the rest of the world? USA is around 5% of the world mobile market.

    We are happy to (re) announce that with Amazon SNS and Nexmo you can reach the remaining 95% without much change of your existing code!

    Using the Nexmo Amazon SDK, you can easily subscribe your mobile users to a given topic and they will be automatically notified via SMS when you will be publishing messages. Here is a detailed how-to.

    http://www.nexmo.com/documentation/libs/index.html#sns

    What is also very cool is that you would benefit from Nexmo wholesale pricing and 1-hop model that cuts out the middle man, improves SMS deliverability and reduce latency.