Is there any specific reason to use Amazon SNS instead of direct Baidu service

Question

I have created push notification using Baidu. It works well through Baidu console and I receives the notification in my Android mobile. I have to create a webservice to send push message from my specific application by using the SDK provided by Baidu. I have another option which seems to be available under Amazon SNS. It seems like a wrapper to Baidu, GCM etc.

My doubt is is there any specific advantage for using Amazon SNS over the Baidu provided SDK?

Answer 1

tldr;

If you target the chinese market only and Baidu is working well for you and you have all you code setup to work with Baidu, then stay with Baidu

Some other points to clarify about Amazon SNS

Baidu cloud push offers a really good service if you want to send notification on the chinese market

Amazon SNS on the other side is a much larger offering and as part of the Mobile Push Notifications Amazon will act as an abstract layer and you can choose which implementation you want.

It has the following advantages:

• You are not limited to Baidu scope so you can send notification on the chinese market but not only and if/when needed to send a notification abroad it will be much easier without rewriting the whole thing
• You can use the same code and change quickly the provider for push notification in case the provider does not work at a given time (downtime operations) or if the conditions change and you're not happy with new conditions.

You send push notification messages to both mobile devices and desktops using one of the following supported push notification services:

• Amazon Device Messaging (ADM)
• Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) for both iOS and Mac OS X
• Baidu Cloud Push (Baidu)
• Google Cloud Messaging for Android (GCM)
• Microsoft Push Notification Service for Windows Phone (MPNS)
• Windows Push Notification Services (WNS)

The following figure shows an overview of how Amazon SNS is used to send a direct push notification message to a mobile endpoint.