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# Creating a SNS Topic and Subscribing through Email
> Hands-on lab · 15m
Launch this lab in the IP Lab Portal, then follow the steps below in the AWS console.
Open IP Lab Portal
## Overview
### Lab details
1. This lab walks you through creating an SNS Topic and subscribing to email notifications.
2. Duration: **15 Minutes**
3. AWS Region: **US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1**
### Introduction
AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service) is a fully managed messaging service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It enables developers to send push notifications, SMS messages, and email messages to subscribers. SNS follows a publish-subscribe messaging pattern, where messages are sent to topics and then delivered to subscribers who have expressed interest in receiving messages from those topics.
Key features of AWS SNS include:
1. **Topic-based messaging:** SNS allows you to create topics, which act as communication channels for sending messages. Publishers send messages to topics, and subscribers receive messages from topics they have subscribed to.
2. **Multiple message protocols:** SNS supports multiple message protocols, including HTTP/HTTPS, email, SMS, SQS (Simple Queue Service), Lambda functions, mobile push notifications, and more. This flexibility allows you to choose the most appropriate protocol for delivering messages to your subscribers.
### Architecture diagram
### Task details
1. Sign into AWS Management Console.
2. Create an SNS Topic.
3. Subscribe to email notifications while creating SNS Topic.
4. Validation of the lab
### Launching the lab environment
1. To launch the lab environment, Click on the **Launch lab** button.
2. Please wait until the cloud environment is provisioned. It will take less than a minute to provision.
3. Once the Lab is started, you will be provided with **IAM user name**, **Password**, **Access** **Key**, and **Secret** **Access** **Key**.
You can only start one lab at any given time
## Lab guide
### Lab steps
#### Task 1: Sign in to AWS Management Console
1. Click on the **Open console** button, and you will get redirected to AWS Console in a new browser tab.
2. On the AWS sign-in page,
* Leave the Account ID as default. Never edit/remove the 12 digit Account ID present in the AWS Console. otherwise, you cannot proceed with the lab.
* Now copy your **User Name** and **Password** in the Lab Console to the **IAM Username and Password** in AWS Console and click on the **Sign in** button
3. Once Signed In to the AWS Management Console, Make the default AWS Region as **US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1.**
4. Select Maybe later in New AWS Console Home page pop-up.
#### Task 2: Creating SNS Topic
1. Make sure you are in the **US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1**
2. Navigate to the **Services** menu and click on **Simple Notification Service (SNS)** under the **Application Integration** section.
3. Enter Topic name and click on **Next** Button.
4. Under **Details**
* Type: Select **Standard**
* Name: Enter ***mysnstopic***
* Display name: ***mysnsnotification***
4. Leave other options as default and click on **Create topic** button.
5. An SNS topic will be created.
* **Note :** Ignore below error message.
#### #### Task 3: Subscribing to the Topic
1. Once the SNS Topic is created, click on your topic.
2. Click on **Create subscription** button.
3. Under Details
* Protocol: Select **Email**
* Endpoint: Enter ***your \***
* **Note:** Make sure you give a valid mail address as you will receive an SNS notification to this address.
4. Click on **Create Subscription**.
5. You will receive an email in your mailbox from SNS, if its not in the inbox, please check in Spam folder.
6. Click on **Confirm subscription**.
7. Your email address is now subscribed to SNS Topic ***mysnstopic**\_\_.*
8. You can unsubscribe to the SNS Topic at any time.
9. We can use this to subscribe to S3 events, CloudWatch events and more.
> #### Do you know?
>
> AWS SNS simplifies the task of sending notifications to a large number of subscribers across multiple platforms and protocols, providing a flexible and scalable solution for building event-driven architectures and real-time messaging systems.
### Task 4: Validation Test
1. Once the lab steps are completed, please click on the **Check my work** button on the Right side panel.
2. This will validate the resources in the AWS account and displays whether you have completed this lab successfully or not.
3. Sample output :
### Completion and conclusion
1. You have successfully created an SNS Topic.
2. You have successfully subscribed to the topic and received an email notification.
### End lab
1. Sign out of the AWS Account.
2. You have successfully completed the lab.
3. Once you have completed the steps, click on **End lab** button in the IP Lab Portal.
## What gets checked
When you press **Check my work**, the platform verifies each of these:
* **Create an Amazon SNS Topic** — Check If SNS Topic created or not
## Related help
* [FAQs and Troubleshooting](/aws-cp/support/faqs-and-troubleshooting)