AWS End User Messaging SMS concepts
This section describes key concepts and defines terminology specific to AWS End User Messaging SMS.
Configuration set
Configuration sets are sets of rules that are applied when you send a message. For example, a configuration set can specify a destination for events related to a message. When SMS events occur (such as delivery or failure events), they are routed to the destination associated with the configuration set that you specified when you sent the message.
Event destination
An event destination is a location (such as a Amazon CloudWatch Logs Group, a Amazon Data Firehose stream, or an Amazon Simple Notification Service topic) that SMS and voice events are sent to. To use event destinations, you first create the destination, and then associate it with a configuration set. When you send a message, your call to the API can include a reference to a configuration set.
Keywords
A keyword is a specific word or phrase that a customer can send to your number to elicit a response, such as an informational message, opting-in to receive more messages, a special offer and other promotional and transactional messages. When your number receives a message that begins with a keyword, AWS End User Messaging SMS responds with a customizable message.
Opt-out list
A list of destination identities that should not have messages sent to them. Destination identities are automatically added to the opt-out list if they reply to your origination number with the keyword STOP. If you attempt to send a message to a destination number that is on an opt-out list, and the opt-out list is associated with the pool used to send the message, AWS End User Messaging SMS doesn't attempt to send the message. If you enable the self-managed opt-out feature for a phone number, then your recipients aren't automatically opted out when they reply to your messages with the keyword STOP.
Originator
An originator refers to either a phone number or sender ID.
Origination phone number
See phone number.
Originator sender ID
See sender ID. Also called originator ID, an alphanumeric string that identifies the sender.
Phone number
Also called originator number, a numeric string of numbers that identifies the sender. This can be a long code, short code, toll-free number (TFN), or 10 digit long code (10DLC). For more information, see Choosing a phone number or sender ID for AWS End User Messaging SMS.
Phone pool
A collection of phone numbers and sender IDs that share the same settings that you can use to send messages. When you send messages through a phone pool, it chooses an appropriate origination identity to send the message as. If an origination identity in the phone pool fails, the phone pool will fail over to another origination identity if it is in the same phone pool.
Registered phone number
Some countries require you to register your company's identity before you can purchase phone numbers or sender IDs. They also require a review of the messages that you send to recipients in their country. Registrations are processed by external third parties, so the amount of time to process a registration varies by phone number type and country. After all required registrations are complete, the status of your phone numbers changes to Active and is available for use. For more information about which countries require registration, see Supported countries and regions for SMS messaging with AWS End User Messaging SMS.
Simulator phone number
A simulator phone number behaves as an origination phone number and verified destination phone number. Simulator phone numbers do not require registration.
Sender ID
Also called originator ID, an alphanumeric string that identifies the sender. For more information, see Choosing a phone number or sender ID for AWS End User Messaging SMS
Verified phone number/Verified destination phone number
See phone number. When your account is in Sandbox you can only send SMS messages to phone numbers that have gone through the verification process. The phone number receives an SMS messaging with a verification code. The received code must be entered into the console to complete the process.
