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Amazon SNS vs Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Developers should use Amazon SNS when building event-driven architectures, real-time notifications, or decoupled microservices that require broadcasting messages to multiple consumers, such as sending alerts, updates, or triggers in applications like IoT systems, mobile apps, or serverless workflows meets developers should use google cloud pub/sub when building event-driven architectures, microservices, or streaming data pipelines that require high throughput and global scalability. Here's our take.

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Amazon SNS

Developers should use Amazon SNS when building event-driven architectures, real-time notifications, or decoupled microservices that require broadcasting messages to multiple consumers, such as sending alerts, updates, or triggers in applications like IoT systems, mobile apps, or serverless workflows

Amazon SNS

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Developers should use Amazon SNS when building event-driven architectures, real-time notifications, or decoupled microservices that require broadcasting messages to multiple consumers, such as sending alerts, updates, or triggers in applications like IoT systems, mobile apps, or serverless workflows

Pros

  • +It's ideal for scenarios needing high throughput, low latency, and integration with other AWS services for seamless cloud operations
  • +Related to: aws-sqs, aws-lambda

Cons

  • -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Developers should use Google Cloud Pub/Sub when building event-driven architectures, microservices, or streaming data pipelines that require high throughput and global scalability

Pros

  • +It is ideal for use cases such as real-time analytics, IoT data ingestion, log aggregation, and decoupling components in cloud-native applications, as it ensures message durability, at-least-once delivery, and automatic scaling without infrastructure management overhead
  • +Related to: google-cloud-platform, event-driven-architecture

Cons

  • -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

Use Amazon SNS if: You want it's ideal for scenarios needing high throughput, low latency, and integration with other aws services for seamless cloud operations and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.

Use Google Cloud Pub/Sub if: You prioritize it is ideal for use cases such as real-time analytics, iot data ingestion, log aggregation, and decoupling components in cloud-native applications, as it ensures message durability, at-least-once delivery, and automatic scaling without infrastructure management overhead over what Amazon SNS offers.

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The Bottom Line
Amazon SNS wins

Developers should use Amazon SNS when building event-driven architectures, real-time notifications, or decoupled microservices that require broadcasting messages to multiple consumers, such as sending alerts, updates, or triggers in applications like IoT systems, mobile apps, or serverless workflows

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