Creating an SNS topic

Amazon SNS is a notification service provided by AWS for triggering notifications to various devices and platforms.

SNS provides push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications. SNS also supports SMS texts, push notifications, and email. To set up SNS for your account, perform the following steps:

1. Log in to your AWS account, search for Simple Notification Services (SNS), and then click on the Create topic button:

Figure 15.21 – The Amazon SNS Topics home screen

2. Provide a value in the Name field for your SNS topic and select the Type option for the message. The FIFO (first-in, first-out) value for the topic Type option enforces exactly one delivery of a message and preserves the message ordering. In our use case Standard will be good enough so let’s select Standard:

Figure 15.22 – The...