Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) | Billing

Question 1

Can I get a history of SNS API calls made on my account for security analysis and operational troubleshooting purposes?

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) | Application Integration

Answer 1

Yes. SNS supports AWS CloudTrail, a web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you. With CloudTrail, you can obtain a history of such information as the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the response elements returned by SNS.

SNS currently supports CloudTrail auditing for authenticated calls only. CloudTrail Audit logs for unauthenticated ConfirmSubscription and Unsubscribe calls are not available at this time. For more information, see the CloudTrail section of the SNS Developer Guide.

To receive a history of SNS API calls made on your account, simply turn on AWS CloudTrail in the AWS Management Console. To learn more about AWS CloudTrail, click here.

Question 2

How much does Amazon SNS cost?

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Answer 2

With Amazon SNS, there is no minimum fee and you pay only for what you use. Users pay $0.50 per 1 million Amazon SNS Requests, $0.06 per 100,000 notification deliveries over HTTP, and $2.00 per 100,000 notification deliveries over email. For SMS messaging, users can send 100 free notification deliveries, and for subsequent messages charges vary by destination country.

Amazon SNS also includes a Free Tier, where users can get started with Amazon SNS for free. Each month, Amazon SNS customers incur no charges for the first 1 million Amazon SNS requests, no charges for the first 100,000 notifications over HTTP, no charges for the first 100 notifications over SMS, and no charges for the first 1,000 notifications over email.

Please refer to the Amazon SNS Details page for additional details on pricing and data transfer costs.

Question 3

How will I be charged and billed for my use of Amazon SNS?

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Answer 3

There are no set-up fees to begin using the service. At the end of the month, your credit card will automatically be charged for that month’s usage. You can view your charges for the current billing period at any time on the Amazon Web Services web site by logging into your Amazon Web Services account and clicking “Account Activity” under “Your Web Services Account”.

Question 4

When does billing of my Amazon SNS use begin and end?

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Answer 4

Your Amazon SNS billing cycle begins on the first day of each month and ends on the last day of each month. Your monthly charges will be totalled at the end of each month.