Setting SMS messaging preferences
Use Amazon SNS to specify preferences for SMS messaging. For example, you can specify whether to optimize deliveries for cost or reliability, your monthly spending limit, how deliveries are logged, and whether to subscribe to daily SMS usage reports.
These preferences take effect for every SMS message that you send from your account, but you can override some of them when you send an individual message. For more information, see Publishing to a mobile phone.
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Setting SMS messaging preferences using the Amazon Web Services Management Console
Sign in to the Amazon SNS console
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Choose a region that supports SMS messaging.
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On the navigation panel, choose Mobile, Text messaging (SMS).
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On the Mobile text messaging (SMS) page, in the Text messaging preferences section, choose Edit.
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On the Edit text messaging preferences page, in the Details section, do the following:
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For Default message type, choose one of the following:
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Promotional – Non-critical messages (for example, marketing). Amazon SNS optimizes message delivery to incur the lowest cost.
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Transactional (default) – Critical messages that support customer transactions, such as one-time passcodes for multi-factor authentication. Amazon SNS optimizes message delivery to achieve the highest reliability.
For pricing information for promotional and transactional messages, see Global SMS Pricing
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(Optional) For Account spend limit, enter the amount (in USD) that you want to spend on SMS messages each calendar month.
Important
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By default, the spend quota is set to 1.00 USD. If you want to raise the service quota, submit a request
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If the amount set in the console exceeds your service quota, Amazon SNS stops publishing SMS messages.
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Because Amazon SNS is a distributed system, it stops sending SMS messages within minutes of the spend quota being exceeded. During this interval, if you continue to send SMS messages, you might incur costs that exceed your quota.
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(Optional) For Default sender ID, enter a custom ID, such as your business brand, which is displayed as the sender of the receiving device.
Note
Support for sender IDs varies by country.
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(Optional) Enter the name of the Amazon S3 bucket name for usage reports.
Note
The S3 bucket policy must grant write access to Amazon SNS.
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Choose Save changes.
Setting preferences (Amazon SDKs)
To set your SMS preferences using one of the Amazon SDKs, use the action in that
SDK that corresponds to the SetSMSAttributes
request in the Amazon SNS
API. With this request, you assign values to the different SMS attributes, such
as your monthly spend quota and your default SMS type (promotional or
transactional). For all SMS attributes, see SetSMSAttributes in the
Amazon Simple Notification Service API Reference.
The following code examples show how to set the default settings for sending SMS messages using Amazon SNS.