Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS in additional AWS Regions

Amazon SNS SMS Region Expansion

Customers using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Asia Pacific (Taipei) Regions can now send text messages (SMS) to subscribers in over 200 countries and territories. This launch enables customers to send SMS messages via AWS End User Messaging, expanding SNS's support to 32 AWS Regions.

Amazon SNS is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service that delivers messages to multiple endpoints including AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon Data Firehose, mobile devices, and email.

What to do

• Update your SNS configurations to leverage the new SMS capabilities in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Asia Pacific (Taipei) Regions.
• Review the Amazon SNS FAQs for more information on SMS messaging.
• Check the list of supported countries and regions for SMS delivery.

Source: AWS release notes

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