Create and configure a project - Amazon Pinpoint
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Create and configure a project

In Amazon Pinpoint, a project is a collection of settings, customer information, segments, and campaigns. If you're new to Amazon Pinpoint, the first step you should take is to create a project.

Note

If you've used the Amazon Pinpoint API, you might have seen references to "applications." In Amazon Pinpoint, a project is the same as an application.

This section shows you how to create a project. As part of this procedure, you verify an email address and grant Amazon Pinpoint access to use your Amazon SES resources to send email from a campaign. The verified email address is used as the sender email address when you create your email campaign later in this tutorial.

Create and configure a project

The procedures in this section show you how to create a project and verify an email address.

To create a project and verify an email address

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon Pinpoint console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/.

  2. If this is your first time using Amazon Pinpoint, you see a page that introduces you to the features of the service.

    In the Get started section, enter a name for your project, and then choose Create a project.

    Note

    The project name can contain up to 64 characters.

  3. On the Configure features page, next to Email, choose Configure.

  4. For Email address, type an email address that you want to use to send email. For example, you can use your personal email address, or your work email address. Choose Verify.

  5. Wait for 1–2 minutes, and then check the inbox for the email address that you specified in step 4. You should see an email from Amazon Web Services (no-reply-aws@amazon.com) with the subject line "Amazon Web Services – Email Address Verification Request in Region RegionName", where RegionName is the name of the AWS Region that you're configuring Amazon Pinpoint in.

  6. Open the email, and then click the link in the body of the email.

  7. Return to the Amazon Pinpoint console in your browser. On the Set up email page, choose Save.

Create an orchestration sending role arn

You must create an Orchestration sending role arn to grant Amazon Pinpoint access to use your Amazon SES resources to be able to send email from a campaign or journey. If you already have an Orchestration sending role arn, then you can choose to use that role in step 6.

Create orchestration sending role arn

  1. Open the Amazon Pinpoint console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/.

  2. On the All projects page, choose the project that you want to update email settings for.

  3. In the navigation pane, under Settings, choose Email.

  4. On the Identities tab, choose Edit.

  5. Choose Enable campaigns and journeys for this email channel.

  6. For IAM role choose either:

    • Create a new role (Recommended) – To have Amazon Pinpoint create the IAM role and configure the IAM roles permissions. Enter a name for the IAM role in IAM role name.

    • Use an existing role – If you have an existing IAM role that already contains permissions to allow Amazon Pinpoint access to ses:SendEmail and ses:SendRawEmail then choose that IAM role from the drop down list. If you need to create the IAM role, see IAM role for sending email through Amazon SES in the Amazon Pinpoint Developer Guide.

  7. Choose I acknowledge that the IAM role I selected has the required permissions.

  8. Choose Save.

Next: Import customer data and create a segment