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Amazon SNS Topics API

Operations for creating, listing, configuring, and deleting SNS topics. Topics are communication channels to which messages are published and from which notifications are delivered to subscribers.

Amazon SNS Topics API is one of 8 APIs that Amazon SNS publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Topics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, pricing, and best-practice docs.

This API exposes 5 operations across 5 paths, and defines 9 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2010-03-31.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://sns.{region}.amazonaws.com.

5 operations 5 paths 9 schemas 2 GET3 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
2010-03-31
Base URL
https://sns.{region}.amazonaws.com
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
License
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Amazon SNS Topics API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (AWS_IAM). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • AWS_IAM — AWS Signature Version 4 authentication. Requests must be signed using IAM credentials with appropriate SNS permissions. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general…

Paths & Operations 5

Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 2 GET, 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Topics 5

Operations for creating, listing, configuring, and deleting SNS topics. Topics are communication channels to which messages are published and from which notifications are delivere…

POST
/?Action=CreateTopic
Amazon Sns Create a New Sns Topic
createTopic 1 param body → 200400403429500
POST
/?Action=DeleteTopic
Amazon Sns Delete an Sns Topic
deleteTopic body → 200403404500
GET
/?Action=ListTopics
Amazon Sns List All Sns Topics
listTopics 1 param → 200403500
GET
/?Action=GetTopicAttributes
Amazon Sns Get Attributes of an Sns Topic
getTopicAttributes 1 param → 200403404500
POST
/?Action=SetTopicAttributes
Amazon Sns Set Attributes on an Sns Topic
setTopicAttributes body → 200400403404500

Schemas 9

The contract defines 9 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are GetTopicAttributesResponse (2 properties), ListTopicsResponse (2 properties), Tag (2 properties), ErrorResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

GetTopicAttributesResponse
object
2 properties
ResponseMetadata
object
1 property
Tag
object
2 properties 2 required
ListTopicsResponse
object
2 properties
ErrorResponse
object
2 properties
SetTopicAttributesResponse
object
1 property
TopicMember
object
1 property
CreateTopicResponse
object
2 properties
DeleteTopicResponse
object
1 property

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

amazon-sns-topics-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Amazon SNS publishes across the network.

Amazon SNS ?Action=ListTagsForResource API
Amazon SNS ?Action=TagResource API
Amazon SNS ?Action=UntagResource API
Amazon SNS Platform Applications API
Amazon SNS Publishing API
Amazon SNS SMS API
Amazon SNS Subscriptions API
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