Indeed, an interesting release. It seems like SNS is attempting to solve the last mile problem. I read they want to allow for SMS message sending through it. I wonder if XMPP and other notification protocols will follow. I'd expect a long-polling- or websockets-like API too.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Darren Bounds <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI: Just saw Werner announce this earlier today. Obviously a lot of > parallels with PuSH. > > "Amazon SNS provides a simple web services interface that can be used > to create topics you want to notify applications (or people) about, > subscribe clients to these topics, publish messages, and have these > messages delivered over clients’ protocol of choice (i.e. HTTP, email, > etc.). Amazon SNS delivers notifications to clients using a “push” > mechanism that eliminates the need to periodically check or “poll” for > new information and updates." > > http://aws.amazon.com/sns/ > > > > -- > darren bounds > [email protected] > > > -- > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. >
