8 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon SNS first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“we frequently drop requests if we get a sudden spike in traffic because SNS is not a queue”
regret · production · retrocryptid · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have stubbed alternatives for all AWS services, including SNS and SQS”
endorse · production · NathanKP · 2015-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use it for our oncall alerting and have seen no reason to be concerned about reliability”
endorse · production · vosper · 2012-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This allowed us to have a special process for handling bounces in our software by using an SNS HTTP endpoint.”
neutral · production · chrizel · 2023-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we used AWS-specific managed services like Lambda, Dynamo, and SNS/SQS”
neutral · production · pwinnski · 2022-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“These are the services we used.”
neutral · production · scarface74 · 2020-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the standard auxiliary services like CW, SNS, Route53, S3, CF, X-Ray, etc.”
neutral · production · 1.5 yr · not_kurt_godel · 2018-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Amazon Simple Notification Service is used to report to the webapp”
neutral · production · dem · 2011-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?