using the AWS CLI code example
Example: aws cli
$ aws ec2 describe-instances
$ aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-1348636c
$ aws sns publish --topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:546419318123:OperationsError --message "Script Failure"
$ aws sqs receive-message --queue-url https://queue.amazonaws.com/546419318123/Test