AWS Services Summary - Application Integration

Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Main features

• Create a queue of messages
• Expose an endpoint and wait for other applications to consume
• Producer/Consumer architecture

NOTE: Can be combined with SNS to create Fan-out architecture.

Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Main features

• Create a queue of messages, stored in Topic
• A service or application will register (subscribe) a Topic.
• Whenever a message is pushed (publish) in a SNS Topic, immediately push to a subscribed endpoint
• Pub/Sub architecture

NOTE: Can be combined with SQS to create Fan-out architecture.