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Alternatives to Amazon SNS

Amazon Pinpoint, Twilio, Amazon MQ, Google Cloud Messaging, and Firebase are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Amazon SNS.
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What is Amazon SNS and what are its top alternatives?

Amazon SNS is a fully managed messaging service provided by AWS that enables developers to decouple microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Its key features include push notifications, SMS, email, and mobile push messages, with support for message filtering, message attributes, and message encryption. However, Amazon SNS charges based on the number of requests and messages published, which can result in unpredictable costs for high-volume usage.

  1. Twilio Notify: Twilio Notify offers a scalable and reliable platform for sending notifications to users via SMS, push notifications, and email. Key features include personalized messages, event-based triggers, delivery confirmations, and reporting/analytics. Pros: Seamless integration with other Twilio services, global reach for SMS notifications. Cons: Pricing based on message volume, may be expensive for high-volume usage.
  2. Firebase Cloud Messaging: Firebase Cloud Messaging is a free cross-platform messaging solution that enables reliable delivery of notifications to Android, iOS, and web applications. Key features include message targeting, flexible message payloads, and delivery optimization. Pros: Easy setup and integration with Firebase services, high deliverability rates. Cons: Limited to Firebase ecosystem, lacking advanced features for message handling.
  3. Pusher: Pusher is a real-time messaging service that allows developers to deliver notifications, messages, and events in real-time to web and mobile applications. Key features include channels, events, presence, and webhooks for seamless communication. Pros: Real-time capabilities, easy to use APIs, excellent documentation and support. Cons: Pricing based on the number of connections and users, which can be costly for large applications.
  4. OneSignal: OneSignal is a powerful and easy-to-use push notification platform for web and mobile apps that supports multiple channels such as push notifications, email, and in-app messaging. Key features include segmentation, automation, A/B testing, and analytics. Pros: Free tier available for small apps, rich set of features, robust SDKs for various platforms. Cons: Limited customization options in the free tier, pricing can be expensive for high-volume usage.
  5. PubNub: PubNub is a real-time communication platform that provides scalable and reliable messaging infrastructure for building real-time applications. Key features include presence, history, security, and synchronization across devices. Pros: Global network infrastructure, low latency, support for IoT and edge computing. Cons: Complex pricing model based on messages and connections, may be costly for high-traffic applications.
  6. PushEngage: PushEngage is a browser push notification platform that helps websites engage with users through personalized notifications. Key features include segmentation, triggered campaigns, cart abandonment notifications, and drip campaigns. Pros: Easy setup and integration, excellent customer support, reasonable pricing plans. Cons: Limited to browser notifications, lacks support for other channels like SMS and email.
  7. Airship: Airship is a customer engagement platform that provides push notifications, in-app messaging, SMS, and email capabilities to deliver personalized messages to users. Key features include automation, segmentation, predictive AI, and analytics. Pros: Multi-channel engagement, comprehensive features for targeting and personalization. Cons: Expensive pricing for advanced features, may require additional integrations for full functionality.
  8. Pushwoosh: Pushwoosh is a cross-channel messaging platform that enables sending push notifications, in-app messages, email, and SMS to engage with users across devices. Key features include automation, personalized notifications, geotargeting, and analytics. Pros: Multi-channel messaging, flexible APIs, cost-effective pricing plans. Cons: Limited support for advanced features in lower-tier plans, may require additional setup for complex campaigns.
  9. Leanplum: Leanplum is a mobile marketing platform that provides personalized messages, A/B testing, automation, and analytics to optimize user engagement and retention. Key features include segmentation, real-time messaging, optimization, and predictive analytics. Pros: Robust features for mobile app engagement, comprehensive analytics dashboard. Cons: Pricing based on message volume, may not be cost-effective for small apps.
  10. Catapush: Catapush is a messaging API that offers scalable and reliable messaging services for critical communications such as alerts, notifications, and reminders. Key features include two-way messaging, high deliverability rates, message templates, and message encryption. Pros: Focus on critical messaging, high priority delivery, cost-effective pricing plans. Cons: Limited to messaging use cases, may lack advanced features for marketing campaigns.

Top Alternatives to Amazon SNS

  • Amazon Pinpoint
    Amazon Pinpoint

    Amazon Pinpoint makes it easy to run targeted campaigns to drive user engagement in mobile apps. Amazon Pinpoint helps you understand user behavior, define which users to target, determine which messages to send, schedule the best time to deliver the messages, and then track the results of your campaign. ...

  • Twilio
    Twilio

    Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs. ...

  • Amazon MQ
    Amazon MQ

    Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. ...

  • Google Cloud Messaging
    Google Cloud Messaging

    Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a free service that enables developers to send messages between servers and client apps. This includes downstream messages from servers to client apps, and upstream messages from client apps to servers. ...

  • Firebase
    Firebase

    Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds. ...

  • Amazon SES
    Amazon SES

    Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2. ...

  • Kafka
    Kafka

    Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design. ...

  • OneSignal
    OneSignal

    OneSignal is a high volume push notification service for websites and mobile applications. OneSignal supports all major native and mobile platforms by providing dedicated SDKs for each platform, a RESTful server API, and a dashboard. ...

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Amazon Pinpoint

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    Manish Mishra
    Lead Consultant at Knoldus Software LLp · | 6 upvotes · 245.4K views
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    Instead of Amazon SNS, which is currently being used to send outbound push notification and including SMS, we want to build the 2 Way SMS using Amazon Pinpoint. Just want to know about Pinpoint and any outstanding issues if we drop SNS since it does not support 2 Way and use Pinpoint for both incoming and outgoing flow.

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    Twilio logo

    Twilio

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      Extremely simple to integrate with rails
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    Ravi Sathanapalli
    Director Product Management at Centime · | 7 upvotes · 130.7K views
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    Hi, We are looking to implement 2FA - so that users would be sent a Verification code over their Email and SMS to their phone.

    We faced some limitations with Amazon SNS where we could either send the verification code to email OR to the phone number, while we want to send it to both.

    We also are looking to make the 2FA more flexible by adding any other options later on.

    What are the best alternatives to SNS for this use case and purpose? Looked at Twilio but want to explore other options before making a decision.

    Would be great to know what the experience with Twilio has been, especially the limitations/issues with Twilio...

    Appreciate any input from users of Twilio and others who have had similar use cases.

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    Cheri Booth
    Vendor Relationship Manager at Storage Asset Management · | 6 upvotes · 65.6K views
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    Searching for options for SMS that integrates with SiteLink and will allow personalization of text and tracking of both incoming/outgoing messages with reporting (Time, date, call#, etc) Have been looking at Twilio, and seems most leaning toward this. Are there any other options known that integrate into SiteLink? Also looked at Clickatell.

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    Amazon MQ logo

    Amazon MQ

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      Easy to migrate existing messaging service
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      Slow AF

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    MITHIRIDI PRASANTH
    Software Engineer at LightMetrics · | 4 upvotes · 288.6K views
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    I want to schedule a message. Amazon SQS provides a delay of 15 minutes, but I want it in some hours.

    Example: Let's say a Message1 is consumed by a consumer A but somehow it failed inside the consumer. I would want to put it in a queue and retry after 4hrs. Can I do this in Amazon MQ? I have seen in some Amazon MQ videos saying scheduling messages can be done. But, I'm not sure how.

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    Kavitha Padmakumar
    devops engineer at Harman · | 3 upvotes · 13.5K views
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    How is CloudAMQP different from Amazon MQ?

    which is the better one to use?

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    Google Cloud Messaging logo

    Google Cloud Messaging

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    Firebase

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    Lead Solutions Engineer at Inscribe · | 14 upvotes · 1.8M views

    Hi Otensia! I'd definitely recommend using the skills you've already got and building with JavaScript is a smart way to go these days. Most platform services have JavaScript/Node SDKs or NPM packages, many serverless platforms support Node in case you need to write any backend logic, and JavaScript is incredibly popular - meaning it will be easy to hire for, should you ever need to.

    My advice would be "don't reinvent the wheel". If you already have a skill set that will work well to solve the problem at hand, and you don't need it for any other projects, don't spend the time jumping into a new language. If you're looking for an excuse to learn something new, it would be better to invest that time in learning a new platform/tool that compliments your knowledge of JavaScript. For this project, I might recommend using Netlify, Vercel, or Google Firebase to quickly and easily deploy your web app. If you need to add user authentication, there are great examples out there for Firebase Authentication, Auth0, or even Magic (a newcomer on the Auth scene, but very user friendly). All of these services work very well with a JavaScript-based application.

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    Eugene Cheah

    For inboxkitten.com, an opensource disposable email service;

    We migrated our serverless workload from Cloud Functions for Firebase to CloudFlare workers, taking advantage of the lower cost and faster-performing edge computing of Cloudflare network. Made possible due to our extremely low CPU and RAM overhead of our serverless functions.

    If I were to summarize the limitation of Cloudflare (as oppose to firebase/gcp functions), it would be ...

    1. <5ms CPU time limit
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    Limitations our workload is able to conform with (YMMV)

    For hosting of static files, we migrated from Firebase to CommonsHost

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    Amazon SES logo

    Amazon SES

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      We decided to use AWS Lambda for several serverless tasks such as

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      • Processing emails received on Amazon SES and stored to Amazon S3 and notified via Amazon SNS, so as to push a message on our Redis so our Sidekiq Rails workers can process inbound emails
      • Pushing some relevant Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms to Slack
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      I would like to know how I can implement a transactional email, or if it is possible to do so, like Mailchimp, using Amazon SES. I want to have the flexibility of creating emails like MailChimp, with a bulk email sending capability. Is it as simple with AWS SES as it is with MailChimp? If so, then how can I implement that for my own product? Thanks!

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      When I joined NYT there was already broad dissatisfaction with the LAMP (Linux Apache HTTP Server MySQL PHP) Stack and the front end framework, in particular. So, I wasn't passing judgment on it. I mean, LAMP's fine, you can do good work in LAMP. It's a little dated at this point, but it's not ... I didn't want to rip it out for its own sake, but everyone else was like, "We don't like this, it's really inflexible." And I remember from being outside the company when that was called MIT FIVE when it had launched. And been observing it from the outside, and I was like, you guys took so long to do that and you did it so carefully, and yet you're not happy with your decisions. Why is that? That was more the impetus. If we're going to do this again, how are we going to do it in a way that we're gonna get a better result?

      So we're moving quickly away from LAMP, I would say. So, right now, the new front end is React based and using Apollo. And we've been in a long, protracted, gradual rollout of the core experiences.

      React is now talking to GraphQL as a primary API. There's a Node.js back end, to the front end, which is mainly for server-side rendering, as well.

      Behind there, the main repository for the GraphQL server is a big table repository, that we call Bodega because it's a convenience store. And that reads off of a Kafka pipeline.

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      Ashish Singh
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      To provide employees with the critical need of interactive querying, we’ve worked with Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, over the years. Operating Presto at Pinterest’s scale has involved resolving quite a few challenges like, supporting deeply nested and huge thrift schemas, slow/ bad worker detection and remediation, auto-scaling cluster, graceful cluster shutdown and impersonation support for ldap authenticator.

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      #BigData #AWS #DataScience #DataEngineering

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