We all know by now that AWS provides a plethora of services designed to help you with developing a rich set of cloud-ready applications; but with so many different services to choose from, how do you make the right set of choices to begin with? That's exactly what we will be learning and exploring in this section, starting with a brief understanding and comparison of a few commonly used AWS messaging services, as depicted in the following diagram:
- Amazon SNS: Amazon SNS, or Simple Notification Service, is a synchronous, managed service that provides the end user with the ability to deliver or send messages to one or more endpoints or clients. This works by using a Publisher–Subscriber-like model, as depicted in the following diagram:
One or more publishers or producers post a message to a corresponding SNS topic without...