AWS Newsletter via E-Mail 📫

Prerequisites 🙋

• Active AWS credentials
• pip
• AWS SAM CLI
• SES in production mode (see here)
• Verified Domains and/or E-Mail Id in SES (see here)

Installation 👷

1. Install python modules:

pip install -r src/newsletter_email/requirements.txt -t src/newsletter_email/dependencies/python

2. Run SAM deployment:

sam deploy --parameter-overrides \
	EmailSender=noreply@stormfsi.de \
	"EmailWhitelistPattern=(^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@reply\.(de|it|com|eu)$)" \
	"MailFrequency=rate(7\ days)" \
	CutoffDays=7 \
	OpsEmailid=<YOUR_OPS_EMAIL> \
--guided

See these example values for SAM:

	Stack Name [sam-app]: awsnewsletteremailer
	AWS Region [eu-central-1]:
	Confirm changes before deploy [y/N]: N
	Allow SAM CLI IAM role creation [Y/n]: Y
	Disable rollback [y/N]: N
	NewsletterSubscribersFunction may not have authorization defined, Is this okay? [y/N]: y
	Save arguments to configuration file [Y/n]: Y
	SAM configuration file [samconfig.toml]: <ENTER>
	SAM configuration environment [default]: <ENTER>

Test locally

First of all you need to set export LOCAL_TEST=true.

Then create a virtual env and run the newsletter.py

python3 -m venv /tmp/python_venv
. /tmp/python_venv/bin/activate
pip install -r src/newsletter_email/requirements.txt
cd src/newsletter_email
python newsletter.py

Usage 🏃

Open the URL given in the output of the SAM deployment. Enjoy! 😎 🌟