# Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) the right Push Notifications solution for you? Explore 10 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/234274/Amazon-Simple-Notification-Service-SNS/reviews --- Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) 4.6 (10) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Ease of use 4.0 Customer Service 3.8 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-10 of 10 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Madhankkumar S. Senior Data Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Send notification to your emails with low cost SNS service !" February 23, 2023 5.0 Definitely a go to services for sending out notifications for AWS users. Pros The SNS is great at integration . The services is almost able to interact with all the other AWS services and able to get the notifications for them and deliver the same to the users. The Notifications are delivered to user with minimal delay . Cons At times there are cases were few notifications are lost when the s3 trigger event was set up to throw the notification when the file arrives. Alternatives considered [Microsoft Teams](https://www.capterra.com/p/168668/Microsoft-Teams/)[Talend Open Studio](https://www.capterra.com/p/246747/Talend-Open-Studio/) Reason for choosing Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Chose SNS considering most of our services runs in AWS. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Software engineer's experience using Amazon SNS" August 2, 2022 5.0 I used SNS together with SQS to broadcast messages to several recipients. Pros Simple friendly API, very easy to use when you are already using the infrastructure from Amazon. Not expensive, pay as you go model. Based on pushing messages, not polling. Integrates great with Amazon SQS. Cons It has hard limits on the number and size of messages per second. It is difficult to decide whether to use SNS and SQS or, for example, EventBridge. Alternatives considered [Apache Kafka](https://www.capterra.com/p/228468/Apache-Kafka/) Reason for choosing Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) In the organization we were already using Amazon's services, it was easier to use SNS which was hosted in the cloud than to put up the whole Apache Kafka from scratch. Review Source SG Shaurya G. Consulting Intern Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Inexpensive messaging tool which can integrate easily with multiple AWS services" September 30, 2022 3.0 Pros Pricing is great considering the amount of functionalities it provide. Provides nearly realtime delivery which is very important for critical time sensitive applications Cons Does not store messages hence it is always needed to back it up with other tools ( For example SQS). This increases the complexity of application and increases the cost Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Its great until its limitations block you" April 26, 2022 4.0 Pros \* AWS integration with other services like SQS or lambda, which help you a lot to speed up your development. \* Out of the box http calls and email deliveries. I have used it extensively and the most valued feature for me is the fanout messages, i.e sending the same message to multiple consumers(sqs queues) so changes in the system can be propagated to the workload. Cons The biggest con I have with SNS is that there is no way to store the sent messages, making it costly and hard to implement when something goes wrong and you need to resend all the previous messages. Probably it's because its not the purpose of the tool but usually I have hit this issue when choosing SNS as an event source. Switched from [Apache Kafka](https://www.capterra.com/p/228468/Apache-Kafka/) Because of operational overhead Review Source VR Verified Reviewer BigData Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Another good AWS service for your solution using notifications" February 27, 2023 4.0 It is a very simple service as the name says but makes the solution more reliable which lets you send/track alerts and notifications, which can be integrated with other AWS services too making it more robust and useful. Pros This lets you programatically send messages/notifications to all your desired customers with the help of triggers as messages or emails which is easily scalable and can be managed without any worries too. In our usecase, we used it for push notifications to via emails mainly to the audience we intent to send. Configuration and setting up takes a couple of minutes. Cons Not too much customization provided because it is mainly managed by AWS. Service Documentation can be improved with more in-detail information, including integrations with other services just for reference. Review Source AD Anmol D. CyberSecurity Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)" March 2, 2023 5.0 Pros the best feature I most like about SNS is its on-time alert notification and if there is one message already there. Then the SNS queue will start and works on the First in first-out perspective.Even we can integrate mail as well as SMS for notification Cons for the free tier, the account is free for one million requests but after that, the pricing is hiked like a rocket. They need to work on it because many of our clients stop using it because of price issues. Review Source Gianluigi M. Dev and Devops Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A really "simple" notification sstem" June 10, 2022 5.0 We use AWS SNS in many projects to sending push notifications, mail and SMS. We can setup a Multi Factor Authentication system integrated in a SSO flow really fast thanks to Lambda functions triggered on SNS events. Pros AWS SNS results really simple to integrate in our systems and on external services. API documentation is as usual for AWS serices really complete and easy to understand. Cons For SMS notifications AWS SNS can be more expensive compared to other services but it remains a cheap and cost effective tool. Reason for choosing Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Skebby is probably cheaper for sending SMS in some regions, but the power of SNS api and integration with other AWS tools makes SNS preferable for us. Review Source Giuseppe N. Software engineer manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy way to implement app notification" April 23, 2022 5.0 Pros Easy to configure and implement integration with backend. As every AWS service, has 100% uptime. Best in class in my opinion. Cons there is no problem I encountered throughout my use of the service. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer E-Learning Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "The platform at the height of our needs" May 15, 2023 5.0 Pros Simple management and monitoring: Amazon SNS provides a simple way to manage and monitor topic subscriptions and cost-effective: Amazon SNS offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model, allowing you to pay only for what you use. Cons It is expensive on high volume messages hanleing Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Principal Analyst Market Research Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Effortless Notification Management with Amazon SNS" January 5, 2023 5.0 Pros I'm impressed with its reliability and ease of use. Setting up notification topics and subscriptions is straightforward, and the service's web interface makes it simple to view and manage the status of my messages. Cons Nothing much. The interface can be improved to make it more user friendly Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Related categories [Push Notifications](https://www.capterra.com/push-notifications-software/) ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.