Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) can be configured to send notifications when emails are sent to particular addresses. Unfortunately, these notifications are extremely difficult to read. Typically, the notification is a large blob of JSON. This project creates a lambda function that formats that JSON blob as a human-readable email. This formatted email summarizes all the important information, and provides a download link to the notification recipient.
SES handles all incoming emails for a particular domain name. When SES recieves an email, it saves the email to an S3 bucket and publishes a message to an SNS topic. The email formatter lambda function is subscribed to this SNS topic. Once the lambda function is triggered, it downloads the email from S3 and uses it to generate a human readable email. The lambda function sends this email to the notification recipient.
This repository only contains the code for the formatter lambda function.
This application uses the AWS CDK to generate the lambda function. To build/deploy this project use the CDK CLI.
npm run buildcompile typescript to jsnpm run watchwatch for changes and compilenpm run testperform the jest unit testscdk deploydeploy this stack to your default AWS account/regioncdk diffcompare deployed stack with current statecdk synthemits the synthesized CloudFormation template