Related services - Amazon Simple Notification Service
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Related services

You can use the following services with Amazon SNS:

  • Amazon SQS offers a secure, durable, and available hosted queue that lets you integrate and decouple distributed software systems and components. Amazon SQS is related to Amazon SNS in the following ways:

  • Amazon Lambda enables you to build applications that respond quickly to new information. Run your application code in Lambda functions on highly available compute infrastructure. For more information, see the Amazon Lambda Developer Guide. You can subscribe a Lambda function to an SNS topic.

  • Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps you securely control access to Amazon resources for your users. Use IAM to control who can use your Amazon SNS topics (authentication), what topics they can use, and how they can use them (authorization). For more information, see Using identity-based policies with Amazon SNS.

  • Amazon CloudFormation enables you to model and set up your Amazon resources. Create a template that describes the Amazon resources that you want, including Amazon SNS topics and subscriptions. Amazon CloudFormation takes care of provisioning and configuring those resources for you. For more information, see the Amazon CloudFormation User Guide.