Worldwide Delivery of Amazon SNS Messages via SMS

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This is a massively important release, and is basically a complete reboot of the SNS SMS product. Before it was limited to something for your backend services to send messages to service administrators, but now it's a fully featured Twilio-like SMS gateway.

Anybody sending 2FA or other SMS messages should give this a look.

Seriously... It seems like the twilio-style usage should be the headline feature, with global support as the side note.

Price per text in the UK :

Twilio : $0.04/text SNS : $0.05479/text (3UK is slightly cheaper)

https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/gb http://aws.amazon.com/sns/sms-pricing/

AU is 6c at Twilio and 10-14c at AWS. So not that great in Australia yet.

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