How to send SMS with Amazon SNS

You can send mobile messages directly to SMS-enabled devices with Amazon SNS (Amazon Simple Notification Service).

What is Amazon SNS (Amazon Simple Notification Service)

Amazon SNS is an application-to-application (A2A) and application-to-person (A2P) messaging system. It provides notifications for subscribers (users and applications).

What kind of notifications can be sent?

  1. User notifications to subscribers, which are sent to mobile applications (mobile push notifications), mobile phone numbers (SMS/text messages), e-mail addresses (emails).

  2. As well as notifications sent to subscribed applications (Amazon SQS queues, AWS Lambda, HTTPS, Amazon Data Firehose).

How to send SMS through the Amazon SNS (Amazon Simple Notification Service) (Quick steps)

To send SMS through the Amazon SNS:

  1. Sign in to the Amazon SNS console.
  2. In the Dashboard menu select Users
  3. Add user
  4. Create group
  5. Create policy on Json tab
  6. Review policy
  7. Specify the name of the policy
  8. Add description to the policy
  9. Choose Create policy button
  10. Refresh the policy list
  11. Filter your new policy and select
  12. Specify the group name
  13. Choose Create group button
  14. Click Create user button

How to send SMS through the Amazon SNS (Amazon Simple Notification Service) (Video Guide)

Amazon SNS supports the delivery of SMS notifications to mobile numbers subscribed to topics. The following video shows the simple steps of the Amazon SNS configuration for SMS notification sending.

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