This lab provides a hands-on introduction to Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), focusing on advanced features such as message filtering and monitoring. The learner assumes the role of a cloud engineer tasked with improving the efficiency and observability of a notification system for an e-commerce platform.
Objectives
- Configure message filtering policies in Amazon SNS to control message delivery to subscribers.
- Set up CloudWatch metrics to monitor SNS message activity.
- Create SNS topic subscriptions with multi-attribute filtering rules.
- Use CloudWatch metrics to monitor message delivery and filtering effectiveness.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with Amazon SNS and basic messaging concepts is required for this lab. You should also be comfortable with configuring AWS services through the AWS Management Console.
Outline
Task 1: Subscribe to an SNS topic
Task 2: Monitor SNS Performance with CloudWatch
Task 3: Implement Message Filtering
Task 4: Analyze SNS Performance Using CloudWatch
Task 5: Challenge - Advanced SNS Message Filtering (Optional)
