Amazon SES
Learn how to use the Amazon SES provider to send email notifications using Novu
You can use the Amazon SES provider to send transactional emails to your customers using the Novu Platform with a single API to create multi-channel experiences.
Getting Started
To use the Amazon SES provider in the email channel, you will need to create an SES account and add your credentials to the Amazon SES integration on the Novu platform.
Setting up SES in AWS?
- Either use a root AWS account or create a new IAM account with appropriate permission policies.
Example policy rule
arn:aws:ses:<REGION>:<ACCOUNT>:identity/*
- Create a new access key and save generated
ACCESS_KEY_ID
andACCESS_SECRET_KEY
carefully - Choose Amazon Simple Email Service.
- Create a new identity.
- Either choose domain or email.
- Verify your domain (by adding a few DNS records as mentioned in SES instructions) or email (AWS sends a verification email to your email).
- Verify the recipient email also by creating a new email identity type [only in sandbox mode].
- Test if your SES is set up correctly using the test email feature.
Creating an SES integration with Novu
- Visit the Integrations page on Novu.
- Click on Add a Provider.
- Select Amazon SES service.
- Enter previously saved
ACCESS_KEY_ID
andACCESS_SECRET_KEY
. - Fill in the
From email address
field using the authenticated sender email id in the previous step. - Enter
region
andSender name
also.
Example region format:- us-east-1
. By default Novu uses us-east-1
region.
- Click on the
Disabled
button and mark it asActive
. - Click on the Update button.
- You should now be able to send notifications using Amazon SES in Novu.
FAQs
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