# Next steps
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Now that you've created a topic with a subscription and sent messages to the topic, you might want to try the following:
+ Explore the [AWS Developer Center](https://aws.amazon.com/developer/).
+ Learn about protecting your data in the [Security](security.md) section.
+ Enable [server-side encryption](sns-enable-encryption-for-topic.md) for a topic.
+ Enable server-side encryption for a topic with an [ encrypted Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue](sns-enable-encryption-for-topic-sqs-queue-subscriptions.md) subscribed.
+ Subscribe [AWS Event Fork Pipelines](sns-subscribe-event-fork-pipelines.md) to a topic.