Lambda SES

An AWS Lambda function to send an email via SES. Sends email to a set recipient with the content of the JSON input.

Blog Post

Features:

• Shells out to a Go binary to send the email.
• Policies to allow only one sender and receiver.
• Low line count.

Usage

For full setup and usage instructions, including an example with AWS API Gateway check out my Blog post

Input JSON:

{
  "FromAddress": "from_address@example.com",
  "ToAddress": "to_address@example.com",
  "Subject": "Test Message",
  "Message": "Test Body"
}

Setup

You need:

• An AWS account
• A Lambda function with the basic execution policy.
• SES set up with an email address and policy (permissons); an example set of permissions is in the policies/ses.json file.
• Your SES address configured in config.json (see config.example.json)
• Build your own, or download the latest release from the releases section above.
• Add your config.json, zip and upload the zip to your Lambda.

Build your own

You'll need Golang installed, then:

$ make build

Standalone usage

There's nothing at all limiting the executable lambda-ses to being used only in lambda. You can pass in the below JSON and AWS credentials come from ENV. AWS_REGION, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.

Standalone Input JSON:

{
  "SenderAddress": "sender_address@example.com",
  "FromAddress": "from_address@example.com",
  "ToAddress": "to_address@example.com",
  "Subject": "Test Message",
  "Message": "Test Body"
}