How to use IBM App Connect with Amazon SES
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is an email service that allows you to send and receive email by using your own email addresses and domains in a simple and cost-effective manner.
App Connect
Enterprise as a Service connector
Local
connector in containers (Continuous Delivery release) 12.0.8.0-r3 or
later-
Local connector in containers (Long Term Support Cycle-2 release)
Connecting to Amazon SES
Complete the connection fields that you see in the App Connect Designer page or flow editor. If necessary, work with your Amazon SES administrator to obtain these values.
| Connection field | Description |
|---|---|
| Secret access key | The secret access key of your Amazon SES account. Get the secret access key from the Security Credentials page in the AWS Management Console. |
| Access key ID | The access key ID of your Amazon SES account. Get the access key ID from the Security Credentials page in the AWS Management Console. |
| Region | The region of your Amazon SES instance, for example,
us-east-1.You can find the value for the Region parameter at the end of the URL when you are logged in to the AWS Management Console (for example, https://us-east-2.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home?region=us-east-2#). |
To obtain the connection values for Amazon SES, see Obtaining connection values for Amazon SES.
To connect to an Amazon SES endpoint from the App Connect Designer Applications and APIs page for the first time, expand Amazon SES, then click Connect.
Before you use the account that is created in App Connect in a flow, rename the account to something meaningful that helps you to identify it. To rename the account on the Applications and APIs page, select the account, open its options menu (⋮), then click Rename Account.
General considerations
Before you use App Connect Designer with Amazon SES, take note of the following considerations:
- (General consideration) You can see lists of the trigger events and
actions that are available on the Applications and APIs page of the App Connect Designer.
For some applications, the events and actions depend on the environment and whether the connector supports configurable events and dynamic discovery of actions. If the application supports configurable events, you see a Show more configurable events link under the events list. If the application supports dynamic discovery of actions, you see a Show more link under the actions list.
- (General consideration) If you are using multiple accounts for an application, the set of fields that is displayed when you select an action for that application can vary for different accounts. In the flow editor, some applications always provide a curated set of static fields for an action. Other applications use dynamic discovery to retrieve the set of fields that are configured on the instance that you are connected to. For example, if you have two accounts for two instances of an application, the first account might use settings that are ready for immediate use. However, the second account might be configured with extra custom fields.
Events and actions
Amazon SES events
These events are for changes in this application that trigger a flow to start completing the actions in the flow.
Amazon SES actions
Your flow completes these actions on this application.
| Object | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Configuration sets | Retrieve configuration sets | Retrieves the configuration sets from Amazon SES |
| Retrieve configuration set by name | Retrieves the configuration sets from Amazon SES using name | |
| Contact lists | Retrieve contact lists | Retrieves the contact lists from Amazon SES |
| Retrieve contact list by name | Retrieves the contact list from Amazon SES using name | |
| Update contact list information | Updates the contact list information in Amazon SES | |
| Contacts | Retrieve contacts | Retrieves the contacts from Amazon SES |
| Create contact | Creates a contact in Amazon SES | |
| Delete contact | Deletes a contact in Amazon SES | |
| Retrieve contact by email address | Retrieves the contacts from Amazon SES using email address | |
| Update contact | Updates the contact in Amazon SES | |
| Email identities | Retrieve email identities | Retrieves the email identities from Amazon SES |
| Delete email identity | Deletes the email identity in Amazon SES | |
| Retrieve email identity by email address | Retrieves the email identities from Amazon SES using email address | |
| Email templates | Retrieve email templates | Retrieves the email templates from Amazon SES |
| Create email template | Creates an email template in Amazon SES | |
| Delete email template | Deletes the email template from Amazon SES | |
| Retrieve email template by name | Retrieves the email templates from Amazon SES using name | |
| Update email template | Updates the email template in Amazon SES | |
| Emails | Send bulk emails | Composes an email message to multiple destinations |
| Send email | Sends an email | |
| Send email using template | Sends an email using a template |
Examples
Use templates to quickly create flows for Amazon SES
Learn how to use App Connect templates to quickly create flows that complete actions on Amazon SES. For example, open the Templates gallery, and then search for Amazon SES.
Use IBM® App Connect to build flows that integrate with Amazon SES.
Read the blog in the IBM Community to learn how to send an email using a template from Amazon SES whenever a lead is created in Salesforce. Click Read the blog to go to the blog.