I have published an InfoQ news post about AWS's expanded feature set and worldwide delivery options Amazon SNS based SMS messages:
Amazon's Simple Notification Service (SNS) recently gained worldwide SMS delivery and can now be used in five additional Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions. AWS also added several new features such as opt-out management, direct publishing, delivery status monitoring, and spending limits.
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