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Create and Subscribe to an Amazon SNS Topic
In this hands-on lab, you will act as a Cloud Engineer tasked with designing, implementing, and validating a production-ready SNS notification setup for pub/sub messaging. While deploying this architecture, you will explore the different configuration options for your SNS topics, you'll configure a Lambda function to receive messages sent from the topic as they are published, and you'll view and validate that messages were received and processed appropriately.
Lab Info
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Challenge
Verify Pre-Existing Resources
Confirm the Lambda Function deployment and configuration.
There should be a Lambda function called order-processor-from-sns with an IAM role attached that allows your Lambda function to publish to CloudWatch Logs.
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Challenge
Create the Amazon SNS Topic
Create a new Standard SNS topic called
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Create the SNS Subscription
Subscribe your Lambda function to your Amazon SNS topic using the LAMBDA protocol.
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Challenge
Publish an SNS Message
- Test and validate the integration between SNS and your subscriber by publishing a message to your topic.
- Verify the subscriber function was invoked by looking at the Amazon CloudWatch log streams that it produces.
- You can send the sample JSON below or your very own message. (You can see the Lab Guide for some sample JSON.)
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