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3. Simple Notification Service

Jyothi Prasad Buddha1  and Reshma Beesetty1
(1)
Seattle, WA, USA
 

We want to make it even easier for developers to build highly functional and architecturally complex applications on AWS. It turns out that applications of this type can often benefit from a publish/​subscribe messaging paradigm. In such a system, publishers and receivers of messages are decoupled and unaware of each other’s existence.

—Jeff Barr1

The Simple Notification Service or simply SNS is a notification service that allows fast and time-sensitive message delivery, in bulk, to multiple ...

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