In my React Native mobile app, I use AWS Amplify to send info about user actions (screen views, button taps, swipes, etc.) by means of Analytics.record(...) to AWS Pinpoint which in turn feeds them into a AWS Kinesis Data Stream. I have created an AWS Lambda Python 3 function that listens to events in this data stream.
Setup has been a breeze, thanks to outstanding documentation and everything works fine - except for one thing:
When a user logs in, I update the Pinpoint Endpoint with the user ID, email address and some more attributes using Analytics.updateEndpoint(...). In the lambda function, I base64-decode the event payload as shown in this sample code and a sample event payload looks roughly like this:
{
"event_type": "_session.start",
"event_timestamp": 1572345161558,
"application": {
"app_id": "<some app ID>",
"cognito_identity_pool_id": "us-east-1:<some pool ID>",
"sdk": {},
"version_name": "<the app version I put in using updateEndpoint(...)>"
... <snipped for brevity> ...
},
"attributes": {},
"endpoint": {
"ChannelType": "APNS",
"Address": "=ABAQRuUDJD ... <some longish binary value> j0eL+69lsY=",
"EndpointStatus": "ACTIVE",
"Location": {
"Country": "US"
},
"Demographic": {
"Make": "iPhone",
"Model": "iPhone X",
"ModelVersion": "13.1.3",
...
"Platform": "ios"
},
"User": {
"UserId": "us-east-1:<Cognito ID of the user that logged in>",
"UserAttributes": {}
},
... <snipped for brevity> ...
},
"awsAccountId": "<my account ID>"
}
The user email address in the "Address" field above is not contained in the Kinesis Data Stream event as plain text, but encoded (or encrypted ?) somehow.
My question: Can anybody tell me how it is encoded / encrypted ? And, ideally, how to get the plain text address ?
I tried to base64-decode it or decrypt it using my default AWS KMS key (and a combination thereof), but no luck.
Alternatively, I could use the (plain text) user ID to look up the email address in the AWS Cognito user pool used to manage auth & auth, but getting it from the event directly would obviously be a lot simpler...
I have searched the web up and down, asked in the AWS-Amplify channel on gitter, but that Address encoding / encryption just does not seem to be documented anywhere...
