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Amazon SNS Introduces SMS Messaging Service

11.04.2011
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Amazon Simple Notification Service now supports SMS text messages as a new method for notifications. Now with support for SMS text messaging, Amazon SNS messages can be delivered to SMS-enabled phone.

For those of you who aren’t familiar, Amazon SNS is a web service that makes it easy to send notifications from the cloud to applications or people. It provides developers with a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective way to publish messages and have them immediately delivered in many formats, to a wide range of devices.

Previously Amazon SNS supported message deliveries via http, email or to Amazon SQS queues. Notifications can now be sent as text messages to cell phones, smart phones or any other device that supports SMS.

This new Amazon SNS feature can be accessed from the AWS Management Console. SMS notification support is currently supported in the US-East region, and will be available in other AWS regions and countries in the coming months.

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Tony Jamous replied on Sat, 2011/11/05 - 4:13pm

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.

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