Introduction to Amazon Simple Notification Service

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully managed, highly scalable service that facilitates message delivery using a publish/subscribe model. SNS supports several transports, such as HTTP/S, SMS and email, and can deliver push messages to multiple recipients at once. SNS is often used to push messages directly to other supported AWS services, such as Lambda or Simple Queue Service (SQS). SNS is integrated with AWS CloudTrail so that SNS actions are captured, logged and delivered to an S3 bucket. 

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:

• Turn on CloudTrail so that SNS actions are captured
• Create a SNS topic
• Create a subscription to an SNS topic
• Send a single message and have it delivered to multiple recipients
• Send a JSON formatted message and confirm customized content is delivered based on the transport type
• Use Athena to query data from CloudTrail logs

Prerequisites

You should have a conceptual understanding of:

• AWS Management Console
• AWS CloudTrail
• AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Structured Query Language (SQL) basics

Lab Environment

After completing the lab instructions the environment should look similar to:

 

Updates

July 1st, 2021 - Updated all instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest user interface changes

May 14th, 2020 - Updated the CloudTrail instructions/screenshots due to the new AWS UI

March 13th, 2019 - Changed instructions and screenshots because of the new UI

January 10th, 2019 - Added a validation Lab Step to check the work you perform in the Lab