Getting Started with Amazon Simple Notification Service
Description
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 an SNS topic
- Create a subscription to an SNS topic
- Publish text and JSON messages to your topic
- Use Athena to query data from CloudTrail logs
Prerequisites
Familiarity with the following will be beneficial, but is not required:
- 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
May 27th, 2025 - Updated screenshots and instructions to reflect the latest user interface changes
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