@aws-cdk/aws-sns

What is @aws-cdk/aws-sns?

@aws-cdk/aws-sns is an AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) library that allows you to define Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics and subscriptions in your AWS infrastructure as code. This package provides a high-level, object-oriented abstraction to create and manage SNS resources programmatically.

What are @aws-cdk/aws-sns's main functionalities?

Create an SNS Topic

This code sample demonstrates how to create an SNS topic with a display name using the AWS CDK.

const sns = require('@aws-cdk/aws-sns');
const cdk = require('@aws-cdk/core');

class MyStack extends cdk.Stack {
  constructor(scope, id, props) {
    super(scope, id, props);

    const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic', {
      displayName: 'My Cool Topic'
    });
  }
}

const app = new cdk.App();
new MyStack(app, 'MyStack');

Add an Email Subscription to an SNS Topic

This code sample shows how to add an email subscription to an SNS topic using the AWS CDK.

const sns = require('@aws-cdk/aws-sns');
const subs = require('@aws-cdk/aws-sns-subscriptions');
const cdk = require('@aws-cdk/core');

class MyStack extends cdk.Stack {
  constructor(scope, id, props) {
    super(scope, id, props);

    const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic');

    topic.addSubscription(new subs.EmailSubscription('[e-mail]'));
  }
}

const app = new cdk.App();
new MyStack(app, 'MyStack');

Add a Lambda Subscription to an SNS Topic

This code sample demonstrates how to add a Lambda function as a subscription to an SNS topic using the AWS CDK.

const sns = require('@aws-cdk/aws-sns');
const subs = require('@aws-cdk/aws-sns-subscriptions');
const lambda = require('@aws-cdk/aws-lambda');
const cdk = require('@aws-cdk/core');

class MyStack extends cdk.Stack {
  constructor(scope, id, props) {
    super(scope, id, props);

    const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic');

    const myFunction = new lambda.Function(this, 'MyFunction', {
      runtime: lambda.Runtime.NODEJS_14_X,
      handler: 'index.handler',
      code: lambda.Code.fromAsset('lambda')
    });

    topic.addSubscription(new subs.LambdaSubscription(myFunction));
  }
}

const app = new cdk.App();
new MyStack(app, 'MyStack');

Other packages similar to @aws-cdk/aws-sns

aws-sdk

The aws-sdk package is the official AWS SDK for JavaScript, which provides low-level APIs for interacting with AWS services, including SNS. Unlike @aws-cdk/aws-sns, which is used for defining infrastructure as code, aws-sdk is used for making API calls to AWS services at runtime.

serverless

The serverless framework is a toolkit for deploying and operating serverless architectures, including AWS Lambda and SNS. It provides a higher-level abstraction compared to @aws-cdk/aws-sns and is focused on deploying serverless applications rather than defining infrastructure as code.

pulumi

Pulumi is an infrastructure as code tool that supports multiple cloud providers, including AWS. It allows you to define and manage cloud resources using familiar programming languages. Pulumi provides similar functionalities to @aws-cdk/aws-sns but offers a different approach and supports multiple clouds.

README

AWS SNS Construct Library

Add an SNS Topic to your stack:

import sns = require('@aws-cdk/aws-sns');

const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'Topic', {
    displayName: 'Customer subscription topic'
});

Subscriptions

Various subscriptions can be added to the topic by calling the .subscribeXxx() methods on the topic.

Add an HTTPS Subscription to your topic:

const myTopic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic');

myTopic.subscribeUrl('MyHttpsSubscription', 'https://foobar.com/');

Subscribe a queue to the topic:

Example of subscribing a queue to a topic

Note that subscriptions of queues in different accounts need to be manually confirmed by reading the initial message from the queue and visiting the link found in it.

CloudWatch Event Rule Target

SNS topics can be used as targets for CloudWatch event rules:

Example of CloudWatch Event rules

This will result in adding a target to the event rule and will also modify the topic resource policy to allow CloudWatch events to publish to the topic.