How to Create AWS SNS Topic using AWS CLI

If you want to create an AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service) Topic using the Command Line Interface - AWS CLI, you can make use of the aws sns create-topic command as follows,

% aws sns create-topic --name smsTopic     


-------------------------------------------------------------
|                        CreateTopic                        |
+----------+------------------------------------------------+
|  TopicArn|  arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:10xx189xx9xx:smsTopic   |
+----------+------------------------------------------------+

As you can see the SNS topic has been created.