Pinpoint SMS Infrastructure

[dwilkie]

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[samnang]

Interesting, AWS also has this kind of services. Looked at their pricing page, its pricing seems to be very expensive. What are the reasons for supporting it?

[dwilkie]

Here is the pricing comparison between Twilio and AWS Pointpoint SMS:

Sourced from https://www.twilio.com/en-us/sms/pricing and https://aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/pricing/

Provider	Country	Price
Twilio	US	$0.0079
AWS Pinpoint	US	$0.00581
Twilio	CA	$0.0079
AWS Pinpoint	CA	$0.00581
Twilio	UK	$0.0420
AWS Pinpoint	UK	$0.03888
Twilio	AU	$0.0515
AWS Pinpoint	AU	$0.0345
Twilio	DE	$0.0940
AWS Pinpoint	DE	$0.08848
Twilio	KH	$0.1705
AWS Pinpoint	KH	$0.1630

In all cases here AWS is cheaper than Twilio.

I'm just playing around here but I got some feedback from the blog post I wrote here: https://medium.com/p/187cc2de76ba

Some people are interested in trying it out but they don't have their own SMS Gateway. We already have a tutorial on how to connect Somleng to AWS Chime (https://www.somleng.org/docs.html#chime-tutorial) but currently we have no way to deliver SMS messages apart from using an SMS Gateway.

I was thinking about adding support for this in the SMS Gateway application, rather than in Somleng directly. What do you think?

[samnang]

Ah, the pricing looks better compared to Twilio.

I'm just playing around here but I got some feedback from the blog post I wrote here: https://medium.com/p/187cc2de76ba

The blog post looks great! 👍

I was thinking about adding support for this in the SMS Gateway application, rather than in Somleng directly. What do you think?

Implementing it directly in the SMS Gateway has its advantages and disadvantages. On one hand, users need to run the SMS Gateway on a server to connect to AWS Pinpoint, and also the scaling is not as good as calling directly from Somleng. However, this approach offers a simpler implementation as we just need to implement another gateway with our existing gateway's interface. If we only need our server to test the products, having direct support in SMS Gateway should be good enough.