title: Example script to Send SMS via AWS SNS using boto
body: <p>How does one send sms directly to the mobile number via AWS SNS using boto (or other python|perl library) ?</p>
  
  <p>Constraints:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>without using AWS Lambda functions</li>
  <li>without using SNS topics to subscribe mobile numbers directly</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>My use case: sending SMS alerts from Nagios using AWS SNS using AWS SMS as the endpoint protocol.</p>