Which AWS service or feature is used to send both text and email messages from distributed applications?

Explanations:

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) enables you to send messages to multiple subscribers via various protocols, including SMS for text messages and email for email notifications. It is designed for distributed applications to send messages to large numbers of recipients efficiently.

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is primarily used for sending and receiving email messages. While it handles emails well, it does not support SMS or other notification protocols like SNS.

Amazon CloudWatch alerts are used for monitoring and alerting based on metrics and logs in AWS. They can trigger actions based on conditions but do not directly send text or email messages themselves.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a message queuing service that allows applications to communicate by sending messages between distributed components. It does not provide direct capabilities to send text or email messages.