# Use Amazon SNS as an alert receiver
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You can use an existing Amazon SNS topic as an alert receiver for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, or you can create a new one. We recommend that you use a topic of the **Standard** type, so that you can forward alerts from the topic to email, SMS, or HTTP.

To create a new Amazon SNS topic to use as your alert manager receiver, follow the steps in [ Step 1: Create a topic](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sns-getting-started.html#step-create-queue). Be sure to choose **Standard** for the topic type.

If you want to receive emails every time a message is sent to that Amazon SNS topic, follow the steps in [ Step 2: Create a subscription to the topic](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sns-getting-started.html#step-send-message).

Whether you use a new or existing Amazon SNS topic, you will need the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of your Amazon SNS topic to complete the following tasks.

**Topics**
+ [Giving Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus permission to send alert messages to your Amazon SNS topic](AMP-alertmanager-receiver-AMPpermission.md)
+ [Configure alert manager to send messages to your Amazon SNS topic](AMP-alertmanager-receiver-config.md)
+ [Configure alert manager to send messages to Amazon SNS as JSON](AMP-alertmanager-receiver-JSON.md)
+ [Configure Amazon SNS to send messages for alerts to other destinations](AMP-alertmanager-SNS-otherdestinations.md)
+ [Understanding Amazon SNS message validation rules](AMP-alertmanager-receiver-validation-truncation.md)