# Step 3: Confirm your Amazon SNS subscription
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To confirm your Amazon SNS subscription, follow these steps to ensure your endpoint can successfully receive messages. This process involves setting up your endpoint to handle incoming confirmation messages, retrieving the confirmation URL, and confirming the subscription. You can confirm the subscription either automatically or manually, depending on your setup.

1. After subscribing to an Amazon SNS topic, Amazon SNS sends a confirmation message to your endpoint. This message contains a `SubscribeURL` that you must use to confirm the subscription.

1. Your endpoint must be set up to listen for incoming messages from Amazon SNS. When the confirmation message arrives, extract the **`SubscribeURL`** from the message.

1. Once you have the `SubscribeURL`, you can confirm the subscription in one of two ways:
   + **Automatic confirmation** – Your endpoint can automatically confirm the subscription by sending an **HTTP GET request** to the `SubscribeURL`.

     This method does not require manual intervention.
   + **Manual confirmation** – If automatic confirmation is not set up, **copy** the **`SubscribeURL`** from the confirmation message and **paste** it into your browser’s address bar.

     This will confirm the subscription manually.

1. You can also verify the **subscription status** using the Amazon SNS console:

   1. Sign in to the [Amazon SNS console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/sns/home).

   1. In the navigation pane, choose **Subscriptions**.

   1. Find your **subscription** in the list.
      + If confirmed, the `SubscriptionArn` will be displayed.
      + If still unconfirmed, it will show as `PendingConfirmation`.