Create a SNS Topic Lab Guide
- Log in to the AWS Management Console using your root account credentials.
- Open the Amazon SNS console by clicking on “Services” in the top navigation bar, selecting “SNS” from the dropdown menu.
- Click on the “Topics” tab in the left navigation menu.
- Click on the “Create topic” button.
- In the “Create new topic” dialog box, enter a name for your topic. For example, let’s use “billing-alert” as our topic name.
- Optionally, you can enter a display name for your topic and add some tags to help organize your resources.
- Click on the “Create topic” button to create your SNS topic.
- Click on your newly created topic to open its details page.
- Click on the “Create subscription” button.
- In the “Create subscription” dialog box, select “Email” as the protocol.
- Enter the email ID that you want to add as a subscriber to this topic.
- Click on the “Create subscription” button to add the email ID as a subscriber.
- Check the email inbox for a confirmation message from AWS. Click on the confirmation link to confirm the subscription.
- Once the subscription is confirmed, you will start receiving billing alerts from this SNS topic
