# Amazon SNS

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-sns/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully managed messaging service for both application-to-application (A2A) and application-to-person (A2P) communication. It enables pub/sub, SMS, email, and mobile push notifications.

## Kin Score — 51.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 51.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 71.4 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 39.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 52.6 |
| Access Clarity | 52.6 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 50.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 30.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (8)

- **Amazon SNS ?Action=ListTagsForResource API** — The ?Action=ListTagsForResource API from Amazon SNS — 1 operation(s) for ?action=listtagsforresource.
- **Amazon SNS ?Action=TagResource API** — The ?Action=TagResource API from Amazon SNS — 1 operation(s) for ?action=tagresource.
- **Amazon SNS ?Action=UntagResource API** — The ?Action=UntagResource API from Amazon SNS — 1 operation(s) for ?action=untagresource.
- **Amazon SNS Platform Applications API** — Operations for managing platform applications used for mobile push notifications via APNs, FCM, and other push services.
- **Amazon SNS Publishing API** — Operations for publishing messages to SNS topics or directly to endpoints. Messages can be plain text or structured JSON for per-protocol delivery.
- **Amazon SNS SMS API** — Operations for managing SMS messaging attributes and phone number opt-out lists.
- **Amazon SNS Subscriptions API** — Operations for subscribing endpoints to topics, confirming subscriptions, listing subscriptions, and unsubscribing. Subscriptions define which endpoints receive messages publish...
- **Amazon SNS Topics API** — Operations for creating, listing, configuring, and deleting SNS topics. Topics are communication channels to which messages are published and from which notifications are delive...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Sns Agentic Access** — 20 operations · 12 acting

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Sns Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Sns Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Sns Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Sns Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Sns Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Application Event Fan-Out** — Broadcast application events to multiple microservices simultaneously using pub/sub topic subscriptions.
- **Mobile Push Campaigns** — Send targeted push notifications to mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms.
- **Alert and Monitoring Systems** — Deliver operational alerts via SMS, email, and HTTP endpoints for infrastructure monitoring.
- **Order Confirmation Notifications** — Send transactional notifications for order confirmations, shipping updates, and account activity.
- **Cross-Account Event Distribution** — Share events across AWS accounts using SNS topic policies for multi-account architectures.

## Tags

Email, Messaging, Notification, Pub-Sub, Push Notifications, SMS

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-sns/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.