Notifications

Amazon SNS is a highly available, durable, secure, fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables you to decouple microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven serverless applications. Amazon SNS provides topics for high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging.

Benefits and features

Reliably deliver messages with durability
Automatically scale your workload
Keep messages private and secure
Simplify your architecture with Message Filtering

Prerequisites of SNS

To get start with Simple Notification Service (SNS) :

Step 1: Create a topic
Step 2: Create a subscription to the topic
Step 3: Publish a message to the topic
Step 4: Delete the subscription and topic

SNS with Amplify and Firebase

Usage of SNS(adding Push Notifications into their mobile app) with amplify:

Asynchronous actions
Scheduled reminders
Instant messaging

How ro create platform application in Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send push notifications to Android devices.

Add your project to Firebase

To create your Android platform application in Amazon SNS, you must have credentials from Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM).

Copy your FCM project's API key

In the Firebase console, choose your project.
Choose Project settings.
Choose Cloud Messaging.
Copy your FCM project's API key to your clipboard.

Create a platform application in Amazon SNS

Open the Amazon SNS console.
Choose Mobile. Then, choose Push notifications.
Choose Create platform application.
On the Create platform application page, under Details, do the following:
- Enter the name of your application.
- Choose Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM).
- Enter the server key that you copied earlier, Under Firebase Cloud Messaging Credentials
(Optional) Set up event notifications and delivery status logging.
Choose Create platform application.