Sending email via AWS SES within AWS Lambda function

Question

I have created a very basic simple function on AWS Lambda which will be used to accept form submissions.

Part of the function will be to send an email to a particular person, pretty simple. I am trying to use AWS SES in order to do this. I have setup the SES service etc, and verified the account I wish to send to and have been able to send out a test email. All works!!

Now when I try and do the same within AWS Lambda and use the aws sdk it doesn't send out the email. I don't get an error or anything.

Below is the code that I am using for the AWS Lambda function.

Has anyone had any experience using lambda and sending emails via ses, through a lambda function? Or even just using the node.js aws sdk would more than likely be helpful.

var aws = require('aws-sdk'); var ses = new aws.SES({    accessKeyId: 'myAccessKey',    secretAccesskey: 'mySecretKey',    region: 'eu-west-1'  });  exports.handler = function(event, context) {     console.log("Incoming: ", event);     var output = querystring.parse(event);      var eParams = {         Destination: {             ToAddresses: ["[email protected]"]         },         Message: {             Body: {                 Text: {                     Data: output.Key1                 }             },             Subject: {                 Data: "Ses Test Email"             }         },         Source: "[email protected]"     };      console.log('===SENDING EMAIL===');     var email = ses.sendEmail(eParams, function(err, data){         if(err) console.log(err);         else {             console.log("===EMAIL SENT===");             console.log(data);         }     });     console.log("EMAIL CODE END");     console.log('EMAIL: ', email);     context.succeed(event); }; 

Answer 1

It would appear that I had the context.succeed(event) placed in the wrong area of code.

Once I moved it into the sendEmail callback all worked.

var aws = require('aws-sdk'); var ses = new aws.SES({   accessKeyId: 'myAccessKey',   secretAccesskey: 'mySecretKey',   region: 'eu-west-1'  });  exports.handler = function(event, context) {   console.log("Incoming: ", event);   var output = querystring.parse(event);    var eParams = {     Destination: {         ToAddresses: ["[email protected]"]     },     Message: {         Body: {             Text: {                 Data: output.Key1             }         },         Subject: {             Data: "Ses Test Email"         }     },     Source: "[email protected]" };  console.log('===SENDING EMAIL==='); var email = ses.sendEmail(eParams, function(err, data){     if(err) {        console.log(err);        context.fail(err);     } else {         console.log("===EMAIL SENT===");         console.log("EMAIL CODE END");         console.log('EMAIL: ', email);         console.log(data);         context.succeed(event);     } });};