The following command creates an SNS topic named ``my-topic``::

  aws sns create-topic --name my-topic

Output::

  {
      "ResponseMetadata": {
          "RequestId": "1469e8d7-1642-564e-b85d-a19b4b341f83"
      },
      "TopicArn": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:0123456789012:my-topic"
  }

For more information, see `Using the AWS Command Line Interface with Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS`_ in the *AWS Command Line Interface User Guide*.

.. _`Using the AWS Command Line Interface with Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS`: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-sqs-queue-sns-topic.html