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Topics and Events Overview

What is Scaleway Topics and Events?

Scaleway Topics and Events is a managed messaging service that facilitates the sending of notifications or messages to a large number of subscribers, including email addresses, webhooks, and more. Topics and Events uses an in-house implementation of AWS SNS protocol

What is SNS?

Simple Notification Service, or SNS, is a managed messaging service developed by AWS. It was released in 2010, and enables users to interconnect their applications and systems using a publish/subscribe pattern. Many publishers can send messages to topics, while consumers, e.g. applications, can subscribe to topics to receive all (or a subset) of messages sent to this topic.

What is the relationship between Scaleway Topics and Events, and AWS SNS?

Scaleway has developed its own service based on AWS SNS protocol. Scaleway Topics and Events does not have any dependencies on the AWS SNS infrastructure or offering, we use our own stack which is fully self-hosted and developed in-house.

Scaleway Topics and Events makes it easy to migrate your existing SNS-connected applications by providing a dedicated protocol gateway.

Note

Some SNS features are not yet available with Scaleway Topics and Events. Supported subscribers are currently limited to:

Refer to the developers documentation for more information.

Topics and Events credentials

You must create credentials that give your applications permission to connect to the Scaleway Topics and Events service.

Credentials are scoped to your Topics and Events service at Project-level. You can choose to give each set of credentials the required level of permissions:

  • Read: receive messages from queues and topics.
  • Write: send messages to queues and publish in topics.
  • Manage: create or edit resources (such as queues and topics).

Topics and subscriptions

You can create topics and subscriptions via the Scaleway console.

Further actions

All further actions such as sending messages etc. can be done using the AWS CLI or AWS SDKs. Check out our documentation to help you get started with the AWS CLI or AWS SDKs.

Topics and Events Resources

The following resources may be helpful:

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