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johnny
johnny

Reputation: 2122

AWS SNS dynamic subscriptions

We have got a strange requirement and we would like to send SMS to our clients based on the assets they are monitoring. Each asset can have 100s of subscribers and there are 1000s of assets so obviously, we can not create one SNS topic per asset. We have the assets and their list of subscribers in a RDS instance on AWS.

Is there anyway with SNS to make the list of its subscribers dynamic, each time we publish a message to it we also supply the list of subscriber this message should be sent to? What are my other options or another AWS service? Lambda maybe? Please advise. thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2889

Answers (2)

johnny
johnny

Reputation: 2122

I finally used SNS for this purpose. Each time I need to sent an alert, I call a lambda and supple lambda with the list of subscribers and the message for that asset. Lambda will go ahead, create a new topic, add the subscribers to it, publish the message to it and when everything is done, removes the topic. Works great.

Upvotes: 5

Rinat
Rinat

Reputation: 429

AWS SNS for sending sms had limitation like only for US or North America region. This point should be double checked before making such choice. If your users only from USA - so quite good. In other cases I would recommend to take a look on https://www.nexmo.com/, clickatell.com or Twilio. They provide nice API and can be managed very easy.

Upvotes: 0

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