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CreateConfigurationSetEventDestination - Amazon Simple Email Service

CreateConfigurationSetEventDestination

Creates a configuration set event destination.

Note

When you create or update an event destination, you must provide one, and only one, destination. The destination can be CloudWatch, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, or Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).

An event destination is the AWS service to which Amazon SES publishes the email sending events associated with a configuration set. For information about using configuration sets, see the Amazon SES Developer Guide.

You can execute this operation no more than once per second.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

ConfigurationSetName

The name of the configuration set that the event destination should be associated with.

Type: String

Required: Yes

EventDestination

An object that describes the AWS service that email sending event where information is published.

Type: EventDestination object

Required: Yes

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

ConfigurationSetDoesNotExist

Indicates that the configuration set does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

EventDestinationAlreadyExists

Indicates that the event destination could not be created because of a naming conflict.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidCloudWatchDestination

Indicates that the Amazon CloudWatch destination is invalid. See the error message for details.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidFirehoseDestination

Indicates that the Amazon Kinesis Firehose destination is invalid. See the error message for details.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidSNSDestination

Indicates that the Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) destination is invalid. See the error message for details.

HTTP Status Code: 400

LimitExceeded

Indicates that a resource could not be created because of service limits. For a list of Amazon SES limits, see the Amazon SES Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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