How to Quickly Register a Phone Number for SMS in AWS SNS?
I'm setting up an SNS (Simple Notification Service) system and ran into a hiccup while trying to add a phone number to the SMS subscription. I received an…
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How to Trigger a Step Function from SNS Without Using EventBridge Pipes?
I'm trying to set up an event-driven architecture to trigger jobs in an AWS Step Function. We have a team sending JSON data to Amazon SNS, and I…
Is Routing Lambda Panics to Slack Really This Easy?
I'm managing over 50 AWS Lambda functions, and I want to set up a process to notify our team on Slack whenever any of the Lambdas experience a…
How to Write an IAM Policy for Sending SMS via SNS?
Hey everyone! I'm working on an app that's hosted on AWS, and I've realized that it currently has broader permissions than necessary. My app uses SNS just to…
Warning: My $10k Experience with AWS Cognito and SMS Charges
Hey everyone, I wanted to share a serious experience I've had with AWS that I think could help others avoid a similar situation. For the past six years,…
Why are my AWS SNS messages getting cut off instead of sent as multi-part?
I'm experiencing an issue where my messages sent through AWS SNS are getting cut off. The documentation suggests that it should automatically handle multi-part messages when they exceed…
How Can I Get Recovery Notifications for My CloudWatch Alarm?
Hey folks, I'm using a CloudWatch (CW) alarm to keep an eye on my site-to-site (S2S) VPN connections. I get alerts via SNS when a tunnel goes down,…