Sending messages

Introduction to AWS Boto in Python

Maksim Pecherskiy

Data engineer

Publishing to a Topic

response = sns.publish(
  TopicArn = 'arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:320333787981:city_alerts',
  Message = 'Body text of SMS or e-mail',
  Subject = 'Subject Line for Email'
)

SNS publishing to topic

Publishing to a Topic

SNS publishing to topic

Publishing to a Topic

SNS publishing to topic

Sending custom messages

num_of_reports = 137

response = client.publish(
  TopicArn = 'arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:320333787981:city_alerts',
  Message = 'There are {} reports outstanding'.format(num_of_reports),
  Subject = 'Subject Line for Email'
)

Sending a single SMS

response = sns.publish(
  PhoneNumber = '+13121233211',
  Message = 'Body text of SMS or e-mail'
)

Senging single SMS

Not a good long term practice

One-off texts = getting stuff done
Topics and subscribers = maintenability

Publish to Topic vs Single SMS

Publish to a topic

Have to have a topic
Our topic has to have subscriptions
Better for multiple receivers
Easier list management

Publish To Topic

Send a single SMS

Don't need a topic
Don't need subscriptions
Just sends a message to a phone number
Email option not available

Send single SMS

Review

Publish to a topic

response = sns.publish(
  TopicArn = 'arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:320333787981:city_alerts',
  Message = 'Body text of SMS or e-mail',
  Subject = 'Subject Line for Email'
)

Send a single SMS

response = sns.publish(
  PhoneNumber = '+13121233211',
  Message = 'Body text of SMS or e-mail'
)

Let's practice!

Introduction to AWS Boto in Python