AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) CLI

AWS SNS is a messaging service that enables applications, end-users, and devices to send and receive notifications.

Accessing Amazon SNS in the AWS CLI.

One Way of accessing SNS messages via CLI

Create an SQS queue:

aws sqs create-queue --queue-name MySNSQueue

Subscribe the SQS queue to your SNS topic:

aws sns subscribe --topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:123456789012:my-topic \
    --protocol sqs \
    --notification-endpoint arn:aws:sqs:us-west-2:123456789012:MySNSQueue

The above returns subscription arn you can use to unsubscribe:

aws sns unsubscribe --subscription-arn arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:123456789012:my-topic:1328f057-de93-4c15-512e-8bb22EXAMPLE

Receive messages from the SQS queue:

aws sqs receive-message --queue-url https://sqs.REGION.amazonaws.

Create/Delete a topic

aws sns create-topic --name my-topic

aws sns delete-topic --topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:123456789012:my-topic

Publish to a topic

aws sns publish --topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:123456789012:my-topic \
    --message "Hello World!"

Listing topics and subscriptions

List topics:

aws sns list-topics

List subscriptions:

aws sns list-subscriptions