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Amazon SNS event destinations

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This topic lists all event destinations, organized by application-to-application (A2A) messaging and application-to-person (A2P) notifications.

Note

Amazon SNS introduced FIFO topics in October, 2020. Currently, most AWS services support receiving events from SNS standard topics only. Amazon SQS supports receiving events from both SNS standard and FIFO topics.

A2A destinations

The following table describes how Amazon SNS can deliver events to various application-to-application (A2A) destinations such as Amazon Data Firehose, Lambda, Amazon SQS, AWS Event Fork Pipelines, and HTTP/S endpoints.

These integrations allow you to archive and analyze data, trigger custom business logic, facilitate application integration, and route events to external webhooks, enhancing the efficiency and flexibility of event-driven architectures.

Event destination Benefit of using with Amazon SNS

Amazon Data Firehose

Deliver events to delivery streams for archiving and analysis purposes. Through delivery streams, you can deliver events to AWS destinations like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, and Amazon OpenSearch Service (OpenSearch Service), or to third-party destinations such as Datadog, New Relic, MongoDB, and Splunk. For more information, see Fanout to Firehose delivery streams.

AWS Lambda

Deliver events to functions for triggering the execution of custom business logic. For more information, see Fanout Amazon SNS notifications to Lambda functions for automated processing.

Amazon SQS

Deliver events to queues for application integration purposes. For more information, see Fanout Amazon SNS notifications to Amazon SQS queues for asynchronous processing.

AWS Event Fork Pipelines

Deliver events to event backup and storage, event search and analytics, or event replay pipelines. For more information, see Fanout Amazon SNS events to AWS Event Fork Pipelines.

HTTP/S

Deliver events to external webhooks. For more information, see Fanout Amazon SNS notifications to HTTPS endpoints.

A2P destinations

The following table describes how Amazon SNS delivers application-to-person (A2P) notifications to various destinations, including mobile phones via SMS and native push notifications, email inboxes, Amazon Chime chat rooms, Slack channels, and operational insights to on-call teams via PagerDuty.

These integrations enhance communication and operational efficiency by enabling real-time alerts and updates across multiple platforms and communication channels.

Event destination Benefit of using with Amazon SNS

SMS

Deliver events to mobile phones as text messages. For more information, see Mobile text messaging with Amazon SNS.

Email

Deliver events to inboxes as email messages. For more information, see Amazon SNS email subscription setup and management.

Platform endpoint

Deliver events to mobile phones as native push notifications. For more information, see Sending mobile push notifications with Amazon SNS.

Amazon Q Developer in chat applications

Deliver events to Amazon Chime chat rooms or Slack channels. For more information, see the following pages in the Amazon Q Developer in chat applications Administrator Guide:

PagerDuty

Deliver operational insights to on-call teams. For more information, see Deliver ML-powered operational insights to your on-call teams via PagerDuty with Amazon DevOps Guru on the AWS Management & Governance Blog.

Note

You can deliver both native AWS events and custom events to chat apps:

  • Native AWS events – You can use Amazon Q Developer in chat applications to send native AWS events, through Amazon SNS topics, to Amazon Chime and Slack. The supported set of native AWS events includes events from AWS Billing and Cost Management, AWS Health, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, and more. For more information, see Using Amazon Q Developer in chat applications with other services in the Amazon Q Developer in chat applications Administrator Guide.

  • Custom events – You can also send your custom events, through Amazon SNS topics, to Amazon Chime, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. To do this, you publish custom events to an SNS topic, which delivers the events to a subscribed Lambda function. The Lambda function then uses the chat app's webhook to deliver the events to recipients. For more information, see How do I use webhooks to publish Amazon SNS messages to Amazon Chime, Slack, or Microsoft Teams?

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