[AWS] Lab

In this hands-on exercise, you will learn how to send alerts via SNS by creating a topic, subscribing to a topic, and publishing an alert message to a topic.

1. Prerequisites: AWS Account
2. By the end of this lab, you will be able to:
   • Create a topic
   • Subscribe to a topic
   • Publish a message to a topic

Follow the exercise instructions described below:

Step 1. Create a Topic

• From the AWS Management Console page, select the SNS service.
• On the left-hand navigation pane, click on the Topics service, and start the Create topic wizard.
• In the Details section, enter a topic name of your choice
• In the Access policy – optional section, use the following configuration to create the topic:

Configuration	Value
Policy method	Basic
Define who can publish messages to the topic	Everyone
Define who can subscribe to this topic	Everyone

• Finish the Create topic. The topic details will display, or you can select the newly created topic from the Topics dashboard to create a subscription next.

Step 2. Subscribe to a Topic

• While you are viewing the details of the newly created topic, start the Create subscription wizard, and use the following details:

Field	Value
Protocol	Email
Endpoint	Enter your email that should receive the notifications

• The subscription page will display, and the status will be Pending confirmation. You will receive an email from Amazon SNS to confirm the subscription. Confirm the subscription.
• In your web browser, a subscription confirmation screen appears.

Step 3. Publish Message to a Topic

• Go back to the Topics service.
• Select the topic you created earlier and Publish a message with the following details:

Section	Field	Value
Message details	Subject	Wishes
Message body	Message body to send to the endpoint	Congratulations on your Udacity Nanodegree Graduation!
Message attributes	Type, Name, Value	String, Occasion, Graduation

• In your email client, you will receive an email from AWS Notifications (no-reply@sns.amazonaws.com)