how to use the phone numbers validation service?

Hello,

Amazon Pinpoint includes a phone number validation service that you can use to determine if a phone number is valid, and to obtain additional information about the phone number itself. For example, when you use the phone number validation service, it returns the following information:

-The phone number in E.164 format.

-The phone number type (such as mobile, landline, or VoIP).

-The city and country where the phone number is based.

-The service provider that's associated with the phone number.

Link- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/latest/developerguide/validate-phone-numbers.html

For pricing, it depends on the usage, however for the free usage: The first 5,000 endpoints that you target each month are free. You pay $0.0012 per endpoint after that. Refer the link for additional exact pricing based on the number of requests and usage. an endpoint might be a phone number or an email address.

Link- https://aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/pricing/#Phone_Number_Validate

Phone Number Validate API has it's own pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/pricing/#Phone_number_validate There is no free-tier for Phone Number Validate.

Phone number validate You can use phone number validate to improve the delivery rates of the SMS messages you send through Amazon Pinpoint. Phone Number Validate helps identify errors that often occur when your customers enter their phone numbers on web-based forms.

Phone Number Validate also provides important information about your customers’ phone numbers. For example, it can tell you if a phone number is a landline, a VoIP number, or a mobile number. You can use this information to make sure that you send messages using the right channel, either voice or SMS, for each customer.

You pay $0.006 for each Phone Number Validate request.

To automate the verification of all your numbers at the time of creation of your Pinpoint segment, use this reference architecture using Step Functions to provide verification status for each number programmatically after endpoint creation. You'll then filter out those that are INVALID, LANDLINE or OTHER for your sending.

https://github.com/aws-samples/communication-developer-services-reference-architectures#Automatic-Phone-Number-Validate