Amazon SNS + Microsoft Teams Integrations

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS. and Microsoft Teams are popular collaboration tools for businesses. Amazon SNS is a service that enables users to send notifications to the recipients in near real-time. Microsoft Teams is a group chat based collaboration platform developed by Microsoft. In this article, I will compare the main features of these two services, and then describe how they can be integrated with each other.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS. is a cloud-based messaging service that enables users to send push notifications to the recipients who have subscribed to the notifications. The messages are delivered to the recipients' mobile phones or email addresses in real time. There are three types of Amazon SNS topics:

• Amazon SNS topic is created when an application developer uses the Amazon Web Services (AWS. SDKs or APIs to publish messages to the topic. A single application can publish messages to multiple topics. An Amazon SNS topic can also be created from the AWS Management Console or the AWS Command Line Interface. All SNS topics support publishing JSON objects as well as sending HTTP requests to AWS Lambda functions.

2. Subscription model:A subscriber chooses a topic from the list of available topics. The subscriber chooses the type of notification it wants to receive on its behalf. After creating a subscription, there are three ways a subscriber can receive notifications:

3. Sending notifications:The two ways of sending notifications are:

Integration of Amazon SNS and Microsoft Teams:Microsoft Teams is a group chat based collaboration platform that allows team members to work together on projects and share ideas within their organization. This platform provides many useful features for teams including direct messaging, file sharing, video conferencing, and integration with third-party apps. Integration with a third-party app is achieved through Bots and Connectors. Bots are used for performing simple automated tasks like making reservations, ordering lunch etc., and connectors enable communication between Teams and other cloud based services such as Google Drive, Twitter, Trello etc.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS. provides a set of APIs that can be used to integrate any third-party application with Teams by using the Bots feature. The following steps should be followed while integrating SNS with Teams:

• Creating an SNS Topic
• Integrating Teams with SNS Topic
• Testing the Integration

IV. ConclusionI. Creating an SNS Topic:An Amazon SNS topic is created when an application developer uses the Amazon Web Services SDKs or APIs to publish messages to the topic. A single application can publish messages to multiple topics. An Amazon SNS topic can also be created from the AWS Management Console or the AWS Command Line Interface. All SNS topics support publishing JSON objects as well as sending HTTP requests to AWS Lambda functions.A user creates an SNS topic by going through the following steps.

• Go to the Amazon Web Services Console and click on “Services” on the right side of the page above navigation bar
• Search for “Simple Notification Service”, the search results will show all the services related to SNS
• Click on “Create Topic”
• Specify a name for your topic in the “Name” field and select “Notification” for Topic Type
• Click on “Create Topic” button
• On your browser, you can find a link to access your newly created topic
• Create your first notification by clicking on “Publish Message” button
• Click on “Add New Message” and enter your message in “Message Body” field
• Click on “Send Message” button
• On your browser, you can find a link to access your newly created message
• Now that you have created an SNS topic, create an application program interface (API. key by clicking on “Create API Key” button on your dashboard
• Once you have created an API key, you need to generate a certificate signing request (CSR. so that you can use it later when you create an API gateway resource
• Enter a friendly name for your key in the text box provided and click on “Submit button”

14. A new page shows up where you can download your CSR fileII. Integrating Teams with SNS Topic.An application developer uses the Amazon Web Services SDKs or APIs to publish messages to the topic, after creating an SNS topic and generating an API key and CSR file. The developer creates an API gateway resource and attaches the certificate to it, then uses this resource when publishing messages to topic. The following steps should be followed while integrating Teams with SNS Topic.

• Go to the Amazon Web Services Console and click on “Services” on the right side of the page above navigation bar
• Click on “API Gateway” under Application Services category under Compute Services section of left hand panel
• Click on “Create API” button in “Create APIs” area of left hand panel
• Select “Author from scratch” option from drop down menu under Step 1. Author from scratch option of Create API form and click on “Create API button”
• Under Step 2. Configure API details of Create API form, give a name for your API, specify an identifier for it and choose “HTTP method” as POST
• Under Step 3. Configure Model Details of Create API form, select “Tables/Queries” as Schema Type and leave all other fields blank
• Under Step 4. Review API details of Create API form, click on “Save” button after reviewing all details
• Download your API gateway certificate by clicking on “Download certificate chain file” available under Certificate tab and click on “Download CA certificate file” available under Security tab of your API gateway resource
• Download CMD file from here https://github.com/zaidan-ali/Teams-SNS-Integration/blob/master/teams_sns_integration_cmd_file_for_windows_linux_mac/TeamsSnsIntegrationCmdFileForWindowsLinuxMac/TeamsSnsIntegrationCmdFileForWindowsLinuxMac.json
• Open this CMD file using command line prompt and execute it by specifying your private key file location and your API Key file location as parameters (see sample execution below. [PathToKeyFile] is replaced with path to your private key file location [PathToKeyFile] is replaced with path to your API Key file location .TeamsSnsIntegrationCmdFileForWindowsLinuxMac --privateKeyFilePath=C:[PathToKeyFile] --apiKeyFilePath=C:[PathToKeyFile]TeamsSnsIntegrationCmdFileForWindowsLinuxMac_APIKeyFilePathForInternetAccessOnly_ForInternetAccessOnlyTeamsSnsIntegrationCmdFileForWindowsLinuxMac_APIKeyFilePathForInternetAccessOnly_ForInternetAccessOnly_apiKeyFilePath For example if my private key file location is C:userszaidanDocumentsteamsSnsIntegrationPrivateKeyFilePathForInternetAccessOnly For Internet Access Only and my API Key file location is C:userszaidanDocumentsteamsSnsIntegrationAPIKeyFilePathForInternetAccessOnly For Internet Access Only then my command line will look like this .TeamsSnsIntegrationCmdFileForWindowsLinuxMac --privateKeyFilePath=C:userszaidanDocumentsteamsSnsIntegrationPrivateKeyFilePathForInternetAccessOnly For Internet Access Only --apiKeyFilePath=C:userszaidanDocumentsteamsSnsIntegrationAPIKeyFilePathForInternetAccessOnly For Internet Access Only --apiKeyFilePathForInternetAccessOnly_apiKeyFilePath For example if my private key file location is C:userszaidanDocumentsteamsSnsIntegrationPrivateKeyFilePathForInternetAccessOnly For Internet Access Only and my API Key file location is C:userszaidanDocumentsteamsSnsIntegrationAPIKeyFilePathForInternetAccessOnly For Internet Access Only then my command line will look like this .TeamsSnsIntegrationCmdFileForWindowsLinuxMac --privateKeyFilePath=

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