AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 865

Which AWS service or feature is used to send both text and email messages from distributed applications?

Answer options

• A. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
• B. Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)
• C. Amazon CloudWatch alerts
• D. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a fully managed messaging service that supports both SMS text messaging and email delivery to endpoints. While Amazon SES is optimized for sending emails, it does not support SMS. Amazon SQS is a queue service for decoupling applications, and Amazon CloudWatch alerts are used to monitor AWS resources rather than send custom application messages.