AWS what is the simplest way to send email in a specific time with an attachment

Question

I want to do a Task Scheduler that sends notifications via email at a specific time, for example: every day at 12:00.

I found some solutions that requires code to achieve it, such as: Lambda, Poweshell, cron jobs, etc. But all those solutions are too complicated.

Is there any other way achieving this?

I found SES, SNS, SQS but couldn't find how to set a specific time to send the notification/emails.

Can you help me find the simplest tool for that (prefer without any code needed)?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There's probably 2 questions in your message but honestly lambda will not be too complicated to setup.

1) Send email from Amazon platform:

you mention SNS, SES and SQS so lets look:

• SNS : Amazon Simple Notification Service

Send mobile notifications, emails and/or SMS messages. In your case (email) as its notification based you need the subscriber to specify email as the protocol of receiving notification. Probably not what you're looking for

• SES : Amazon Simple Email Service

With Amazon SES, you can send transactional email, marketing messages, or any other type of high-quality content to your customers. Probably what you're looking for

• SQS : Amazon Simple Queue Service

Store data for future processing in a queue. The lingo for this is storing "messages" but it doesn't have anything to do with email or SMS. SQS doesn't have any logic, it's just a place to put things and take things out. (from https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english).

Look at his Q&A with the question and answer you'll have a fully setup lambda to send email from AWS lambda using SES

2) Schedule the lambda to run at specific time

Back in october 2015 Amazon introduced Scheduled Functions (Cron) so

You can now invoke a Lambda function on a regular, scheduled basis. You can specify a fixed rate (number of minutes, hours, or days between invocations) or you can specify a Cron-like expression: