SES Email

Description

This project is a small example of how to send an email using AWS SES. It contains a cloudformation YAML template to create a simple newsletter signup email template as well as a node script to invoke the email.

Try it yourself

Prerequisites

1. A configured AWS CLI
2. NodeJS installed
3. 2 verified email address in AWS SES, one for the from address, one for the to address

Deploy the Cloudformation template

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the root of this project
2. Run sh ./provision.sh
3. Wait for the stack to be created

Send the email

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the root of this project
2. Run npm ci
3. Run sh ./run -f [from address] -t [to address] -n [name of recipient]

Cleanup

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the root of this project
2. Run sh ./destroy.sh

Project setup

Cloudformation

The cloudformation template creates a basic newsletter welcome email template. Including a name parameter to show how to pass parameters to a template.

To keep everything as self-contained as possible, the cloudformation template outputs the name of the created email template for use with the node script.

Note: This project assumes the us-east-1 region for ease of demonstration.

NodeJS

A basic node application has been provided to show how an application could interact with SES to send an email using the provisioned template.