--- description: Learn more about Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in South Africa. Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Price, Reviews & Features - Capterra South Africa 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Push Notifications Software](/directory/30969/push-notifications/software) > [Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)](/software/1016841/amazon-simple-notification-service-sns) # Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.za/software/1016841/amazon-simple-notification-service-sns Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/1016841/amazon-simple-notification-service-sns?page=2) > SNS tool that helps manage message filtering, archiving, encryption, privacy and other A2A and A2P communications > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 10 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 10 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Amazon Web Services - **Location**: Seattle, US - **Founded**: 2006 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing Details**: Contact Amazon Web Services for pricing details. - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - SMS Notifications - Web Notifications ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base ## Category - [Push Notifications Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30969/push-notifications/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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The Notifications are delivered to user with minimal delay . > > **Cons**: At times there are cases were few notifications are lost when the s3 trigger event was set up to throw the notification when the file arrives. > > Definitely a go to services for sending out notifications for AWS users. ----- ### "Software engineer's experience using Amazon SNS" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *02 August 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Simple friendly API, very easy to use when you are already using the infrastructure from Amazon. Not expensive, pay as you go model. Based on pushing messages, not polling. Integrates great with Amazon SQS. > > **Cons**: It has hard limits on the number and size of messages per second. It is difficult to decide whether to use SNS and SQS or, for example, EventBridge. > > I used SNS together with SQS to broadcast messages to several recipients. ----- ### "Inexpensive messaging tool which can integrate easily with multiple AWS services" — 3.0/5 > **Shaurya** | *30 September 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: Pricing is great considering the amount of functionalities it provide. Provides nearly realtime delivery which is very important for critical time sensitive applications > > **Cons**: Does not store messages hence it is always needed to back it up with other tools ( For example SQS). This increases the complexity of application and increases the cost ----- ### "Its great until its limitations block you" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *26 April 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: \* AWS integration with other services like SQS or lambda, which help you a lot to speed up your development. \* Out of the box http calls and email deliveries. I have used it extensively and the most valued feature for me is the fanout messages, i.e sending the same message to multiple consumers(sqs queues) so changes in the system can be propagated to the workload. > > **Cons**: The biggest con I have with SNS is that there is no way to store the sent messages, making it costly and hard to implement when something goes wrong and you need to resend all the previous messages. Probably it's because its not the purpose of the tool but usually I have hit this issue when choosing SNS as an event source. ----- ### "Another good AWS service for your solution using notifications" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *27 February 2023* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: This lets you programatically send messages/notifications to all your desired customers with the help of triggers as messages or emails which is easily scalable and can be managed without any worries too. In our usecase, we used it for push notifications to via emails mainly to the audience we intent to send. Configuration and setting up takes a couple of minutes. > > **Cons**: Not too much customization provided because it is mainly managed by AWS. Service Documentation can be improved with more in-detail information, including integrations with other services just for reference. > > It is a very simple service as the name says but makes the solution more reliable which lets you send/track alerts and notifications, which can be integrated with other AWS services too making it more robust and useful. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/1016841/amazon-simple-notification-service-sns?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/1016841/amazon-simple-notification-service-sns) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | ----- ## Structured Data