Language	Package
.NET	`Amazon.CDK.AWS.SNS`
Go	`github.com/aws/aws-cdk-go/awscdk/v2/awssns`
Java	`software.amazon.awscdk.services.sns`
Python	`aws_cdk.aws_sns`
TypeScript	`aws-cdk-lib` » `aws_sns`

Amazon Simple Notification Service Construct Library

Add an SNS Topic to your stack:

const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'Topic', {
  displayName: 'Customer subscription topic',
});

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Add a FIFO SNS topic with content-based de-duplication to your stack:

const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'Topic', {
  contentBasedDeduplication: true,
  displayName: 'Customer subscription topic',
  fifo: true,
});

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Add an SNS Topic to your stack with a specified signature version, which corresponds to the hashing algorithm used while creating the signature of the notifications, subscription confirmations, or unsubscribe confirmation messages sent by Amazon SNS.

The default signature version is 1 (SHA1). SNS also supports signature version 2 (SHA256).

const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'Topic', {
  signatureVersion: '2',
});

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Note that FIFO topics require a topic name to be provided. The required .fifo suffix will be automatically generated and added to the topic name if it is not explicitly provided.

Subscriptions

Various subscriptions can be added to the topic by calling the .addSubscription(...) method on the topic. It accepts a subscription object, default implementations of which can be found in the aws-cdk-lib/aws-sns-subscriptions package:

Add an HTTPS Subscription to your topic:

const myTopic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic');

myTopic.addSubscription(new subscriptions.UrlSubscription('https://foobar.com/'));

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Subscribe a queue to the topic:

declare const queue: sqs.Queue;
const myTopic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic');

myTopic.addSubscription(new subscriptions.SqsSubscription(queue));

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Note that subscriptions of queues in different accounts need to be manually confirmed by reading the initial message from the queue and visiting the link found in it.

The grantSubscribe method adds a policy statement to the topic's resource policy, allowing the specified principal to perform the sns:Subscribe action. It's useful when you want to allow entities, such as another AWS account or resources created later, to subscribe to the topic at their own pace, separating permission granting from the actual subscription process.

declare const accountPrincipal: iam.AccountPrincipal;
const myTopic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic');

myTopic.grantSubscribe(accountPrincipal);

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Filter policy

A filter policy can be specified when subscribing an endpoint to a topic.

Example with a Lambda subscription:

import * as lambda from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-lambda';

const myTopic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic');
declare const fn: lambda.Function;

// Lambda should receive only message matching the following conditions on attributes:
// color: 'red' or 'orange' or begins with 'bl'
// size: anything but 'small' or 'medium'
// price: between 100 and 200 or greater than 300
// store: attribute must be present
myTopic.addSubscription(new subscriptions.LambdaSubscription(fn, {
  filterPolicy: {
    color: sns.SubscriptionFilter.stringFilter({
      allowlist: ['red', 'orange'],
      matchPrefixes: ['bl'],
      matchSuffixes: ['ue'],
    }),
    size: sns.SubscriptionFilter.stringFilter({
      denylist: ['small', 'medium'],
    }),
    price: sns.SubscriptionFilter.numericFilter({
      between: { start: 100, stop: 200 },
      greaterThan: 300,
    }),
    store: sns.SubscriptionFilter.existsFilter(),
  },
}));

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Payload-based filtering

To filter messages based on the payload or body of the message, use the filterPolicyWithMessageBody property. This type of filter policy supports creating filters on nested objects.

Example with a Lambda subscription:

import * as lambda from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-lambda';

const myTopic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic');
declare const fn: lambda.Function;

// Lambda should receive only message matching the following conditions on message body:
// color: 'red' or 'orange'
myTopic.addSubscription(new subscriptions.LambdaSubscription(fn, {
  filterPolicyWithMessageBody: {
    background: sns.FilterOrPolicy.policy({
      color: sns.FilterOrPolicy.filter(sns.SubscriptionFilter.stringFilter({
        allowlist: ['red', 'orange'],
      })),
    }),
  },
}));

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Example of Firehose Subscription

import { DeliveryStream } from '@aws-cdk/aws-kinesisfirehose-alpha';

const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'Topic');
declare const stream: DeliveryStream;

new sns.Subscription(this, 'Subscription', {
  topic,
  endpoint: stream.deliveryStreamArn,
  protocol: sns.SubscriptionProtocol.FIREHOSE,
  subscriptionRoleArn: "SAMPLE_ARN", //role with permissions to send messages to a firehose delivery stream
});

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DLQ setup for SNS Subscription

CDK can attach provided Queue as DLQ for your SNS subscription. See the SNS DLQ configuration docs for more information about this feature.

Example of usage with user provided DLQ.

const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'Topic');
const dlQueue = new sqs.Queue(this, 'DeadLetterQueue', {
  queueName: 'MySubscription_DLQ',
  retentionPeriod: Duration.days(14),
});

new sns.Subscription(this, 'Subscription', {
  endpoint: 'endpoint',
  protocol: sns.SubscriptionProtocol.LAMBDA,
  topic,
  deadLetterQueue: dlQueue,
});

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CloudWatch Event Rule Target

SNS topics can be used as targets for CloudWatch event rules.

Use the aws-cdk-lib/aws-events-targets.SnsTopic:

import * as codecommit from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-codecommit';
import * as targets from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-events-targets';

declare const repo: codecommit.Repository;
const myTopic = new sns.Topic(this, 'Topic');

repo.onCommit('OnCommit', {
  target: new targets.SnsTopic(myTopic),
});

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This will result in adding a target to the event rule and will also modify the topic resource policy to allow CloudWatch events to publish to the topic.

Topic Policy

A topic policy is automatically created when addToResourcePolicy is called, if one doesn't already exist. Using addToResourcePolicy is the simplest way to add policies, but a TopicPolicy can also be created manually.

const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'Topic');
const topicPolicy = new sns.TopicPolicy(this, 'TopicPolicy', {
  topics: [topic],
});

topicPolicy.document.addStatements(new iam.PolicyStatement({
  actions: ["sns:Subscribe"],
  principals: [new iam.AnyPrincipal()],
  resources: [topic.topicArn],
}));

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A policy document can also be passed on TopicPolicy construction

const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'Topic');
const policyDocument = new iam.PolicyDocument({
  assignSids: true,
  statements: [
    new iam.PolicyStatement({
      actions: ["sns:Subscribe"],
      principals: [new iam.AnyPrincipal()],
      resources: [topic.topicArn],
    }),
  ],
});

const topicPolicy = new sns.TopicPolicy(this, 'Policy', {
  topics: [topic],
  policyDocument,
});

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Enforce encryption of data in transit when publishing to a topic

You can enforce SSL when creating a topic policy by setting the enforceSSL flag:

const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'Topic');
const policyDocument = new iam.PolicyDocument({
  assignSids: true,
  statements: [
    new iam.PolicyStatement({
      actions: ["sns:Publish"],
      principals: [new iam.ServicePrincipal('s3.amazonaws.com')],
      resources: [topic.topicArn],
    }),
  ],
});

const topicPolicy = new sns.TopicPolicy(this, 'Policy', {
  topics: [topic],
  policyDocument,
  enforceSSL: true,
});

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Similiarly you can enforce SSL by setting the enforceSSL flag on the topic:

const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'TopicAddPolicy', {
  enforceSSL: true,
});

topic.addToResourcePolicy(new iam.PolicyStatement({
  principals: [new iam.ServicePrincipal('s3.amazonaws.com')],
  actions: ['sns:Publish'],
  resources: [topic.topicArn],
}));

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Delivery status logging

Amazon SNS provides support to log the delivery status of notification messages sent to topics with the following Amazon SNS endpoints:

HTTP
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
AWS Lambda
Platform application endpoint
Amazon Simple Queue Service

Example with a delivery status logging configuration for SQS:

declare const role: iam.Role;
const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic', {
  loggingConfigs: [
    {
      protocol: sns.LoggingProtocol.SQS,
      failureFeedbackRole: role,
      successFeedbackRole: role,
      successFeedbackSampleRate: 50,
    },
  ],
});

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A delivery status logging configuration can also be added to your topic by addLoggingConfig method:

declare const role: iam.Role;
const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic');

topic.addLoggingConfig({
  protocol: sns.LoggingProtocol.SQS,
  failureFeedbackRole: role,
  successFeedbackRole: role,
  successFeedbackSampleRate: 50,
});

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Note that valid values for successFeedbackSampleRate are integer between 0-100.

Archive Policy

Message archiving provides the ability to archive a single copy of all messages published to your topic. You can store published messages within your topic by enabling the message archive policy on the topic, which enables message archiving for all subscriptions linked to that topic. Messages can be archived for a minimum of one day to a maximum of 365 days.

Example with an archive policy:

const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic', {
  fifo: true,
  messageRetentionPeriodInDays: 7,
});

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Note: The messageRetentionPeriodInDays property is only available for FIFO topics.

TracingConfig

Tracing mode of an Amazon SNS topic.

If PassThrough, the topic passes trace headers received from the Amazon SNS publisher to its subscription. If set to Active, Amazon SNS will vend X-Ray segment data to topic owner account if the sampled flag in the tracing header is true.

The default TracingConfig is TracingConfig.PASS_THROUGH.

Example with a tracingConfig set to Active:

const topic = new sns.Topic(this, 'MyTopic', {
  tracingConfig: sns.TracingConfig.ACTIVE,
});

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