AWS SNS to send SMS on mobile

AWS SNS now support sending SMS to your phone by subscribing your mobile number.

Generally we used to have many cases when we trigger notification email like CPU utilization or Memory utilization or any alarm we want to capture and take action on it. And to achieve that we use SNS topic where we add email id's in subscription list and we get the email whenever that message get publish to that SNS topic.

But sometime watching email every time is difficult and becuause of that it cause delay in action which we should take on that email notification.

So, now we have SMS feture and same to email, we need to add mobile number into subscription list and when ever message will publish to SNS topic, now we will be receiving SMS on phone.

Keep remember few things-

1. When you start using SMS feture, then it by default sandbox environment get applied where having some of limitations like you have to verify mobile number while you adding to subscription list.
2. There are limit of max 10 mobile number which can be allowed at this moment.
3. But, when you out from sandbox environment then these limitations does not apply to you. And to get out of sandbox environment, you can raise AWS support desk ticket to increase the limit or you can use aws "Service Quotas" to put service limit increase request.

Lets move to practical:

Go to your SNS topic, mobile text message(SMS) and add mobile number. Select the country and add your mobile number, it will send you verification code as text messge on your phone which you have to use on same screen to verify your mobile number.

Once it verified, you can add the mobile endpoint into your topic subscription list.

If you want to delete the phone number then same you can do by goint into SNS topic, mobile text message(SMS):