AWS cognito: send custom email
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1 min readDec 2, 2018
Aws have a service called simple email service, which is quite easy to use. But I can not find any simple way to use it in combination with cognito email.
Fortunately, I found that we can use its trigger lambda. Aws provides a super easy console to create lambda on function right on the browser .
Event object in case of CustomMessage_SignUp. Notice on triggerSource it will show you which event is.
And function on lambda for customizing email is:
Note:
- I use node 8.10 for run time
- Care about environment variables app__base_url it is added by section Environment variables below the code editing console.
- Lambda timeout should be customized, I change it to 15s