Amazon SNS

Amazon SNS is a notification service that coordinates and maintains the delivery and sending of messages to subscribing endpoints or clients. This document describes how to connect IBM watsonx Orchestrate to Amazon SNS and use its skills on watsonx Orchestrate.

Connecting to Amazon SNS

Connect to the app according to the credential type that you or your team want to use.

If you want to connect the app to the Orchestrate Agent skill set, skill sets from AI assistants, or the Team skill set with Team credentials, refer to Managing app connections.

If you want to connect to the app to the Personal skill set or the Team skill set with Member credentials, refer to Connecting to apps.

Configuring the connection

To connect watsonx Orchestrate to Amazon SNS, complete the following steps:

  1. Click Connect app.

  2. Specify the Secret access key and Access key ID.

  3. Specify the Region where the server that hosts your Amazon SNS is located.

    • You can find the region at the end of the URL after you log in to the AWS Management Console. For example, https://us-east-2.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home?region=us-east-2#.

  4. Click Connect app.

Note: The icon A green check icon appears to show that the app is connected. indicates that the connection was successfully established.

Retrieving Secret access key and Access key ID

To find the Secret access key and Access key ID, complete the following steps:

  1. Go to AWS Management Console.
  2. Click your account name on the Security Credentials page.
  3. Select My Security Credentials.
  4. Select the AWS IAM Credentials tab. You can find the existing access key IDs.
  5. To create an access key, click Create access key > Download credentials. Your Access key ID and Secret access key are downloaded.

Technical parameters

The following table contains the technical parameters required by some skills of this app and instructions to retrieve them.

Parameters Details
Topic ARN To get the topic ARN, use Get all topics or Get all subscriptions skill.

What to do next

After you connect to the app, you can use the Amazon SNS skills. For more information see, Using the chat.

To learn about the available skills, see List of prebuilt apps, skills and skill flows.

Parent topic:

→ Connecting to apps