Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
Add tool
Amazon SNS vs Google Cloud Messaging: What are the differences?
Key Differences between Amazon SNS and Google Cloud Messaging
Introduction
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) are cloud-based messaging services that allow developers to send push notifications to mobile devices, as well as to other distributed services.
1. Architecture:
- Amazon SNS: It follows a publish/subscribe model where developers can publish messages to SNS topics, and subscribers receive those messages.
- Google Cloud Messaging: It uses an HTTP-based system where developers send messages to specific device IDs or topics, and GCM handles the delivery.
2. Target Platforms and Services:
- Amazon SNS: It supports push notifications for various platforms including iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and Windows Phone.
- Google Cloud Messaging: It primarily focuses on Android and iOS devices, providing rich push notifications and synchronization with Google services.
3. Scalability:
- Amazon SNS: It offers virtually unlimited scalability, allowing developers to handle any amount of traffic without worrying about infrastructure.
- Google Cloud Messaging: It also provides scalability and can handle high message loads, but may have some limitations on the number of messages per device in certain scenarios.
4. Features:
- Amazon SNS: It offers additional features such as message filtering, message attributes, and mobile analytics. It also provides support for SMS and email notifications.
- Google Cloud Messaging: It focuses on delivering push notifications to mobile devices and does not offer as many additional features as Amazon SNS.
5. Pricing:
- Amazon SNS: It follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where users only pay for the messages they send and any additional features they use.
- Google Cloud Messaging: It also follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model, but the charges may vary based on the number of messages and additional services used.
6. Integration with Other Cloud Services:
- Amazon SNS: It integrates well with other Amazon Web Services such as AWS Lambda, AWS IoT, and AWS CloudFormation, enabling developers to build complex applications.
- Google Cloud Messaging: It integrates with other Google Cloud services such as Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), Google Analytics, and Firebase Authentication, providing a seamless development experience within the Google Cloud ecosystem.
In summary, while both Amazon SNS and Google Cloud Messaging provide push notification services, they differ in their architecture, target platforms, scalability, features, pricing, and integration options. Developers can choose the one that aligns better with their specific requirements and ecosystem.
Get Advice from developers at your company using StackShare Enterprise. Sign up for StackShare Enterprise.
Learn MorePros of Amazon SNS
Pros of Google Cloud Messaging
Pros of Amazon SNS
- Low cost12
- Supports multi subscribers6
Pros of Google Cloud Messaging
- Free9
- Scalable6
- Easy setup4
- Easy iOS setup2
- IOS Support1
Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions
Cons of Amazon SNS
Cons of Google Cloud Messaging
Cons of Amazon SNS
Be the first to leave a con
Cons of Google Cloud Messaging
- Reliability1
Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions
What is Amazon SNS?
Amazon Simple Notification Service makes it simple and cost-effective to push to mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, and internet connected smart devices, as well as pushing to other distributed services. Besides pushing cloud notifications directly to mobile devices, SNS can also deliver notifications by SMS text message or email, to Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues, or to any HTTP endpoint.
What is 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.
Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
What companies use Amazon SNS?
What companies use Google Cloud Messaging?
What companies use Amazon SNS?
See which teams inside your own company are using Amazon SNS or Google Cloud Messaging.
Sign up for StackShare EnterpriseLearn MoreSign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions
What tools integrate with Amazon SNS?
What tools integrate with Google Cloud Messaging?
What tools integrate with Amazon SNS?
What tools integrate with Google Cloud Messaging?
Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions
Blog Posts
+47 54
72299
+23 12
6565
+39 5
1400
What are some alternatives to Amazon SNS and Google Cloud Messaging?
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 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 is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud.
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 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.