AWS: Send Simple Email Service

If you want to send an email using AWS’ Simple Mail then you need to do the following. This is a very basic example.

Import the following:

import com.amazonaws.auth.AWSStaticCredentialsProvider;
import com.amazonaws.auth.BasicAWSCredentials;
import com.amazonaws.services.simpleemail.AmazonSimpleEmailService;
import com.amazonaws.services.simpleemail.AmazonSimpleEmailServiceClientBuilder;
import com.amazonaws.services.simpleemail.model.Body;
import com.amazonaws.services.simpleemail.model.Content;
import com.amazonaws.services.simpleemail.model.Destination;
import com.amazonaws.services.simpleemail.model.Message;
import com.amazonaws.services.simpleemail.model.SendEmailRequest;

Setup Connection to AWS Simple Email Service

final AmazonSimpleEmailService simpleEmailService = AmazonSimpleEmailServiceClientBuilder.standard().withRegion(myRegion)
.withCredentials(new AWSStaticCredentialsProvider(new BasicAWSCredentials(accessKeyId, secretKey)))
.build();

Setup Email:

final SendEmailRequest request = new SendEmailRequest().withDestination(new Destination().withToAddresses(TO)).withSource(FROM)
.withMessage(new Message().withSubject(new Content().withCharset("UTF-8").withData(SUBJECT))
.withBody(new Body().withText(new Content().withCharset("UTF-8").withData(BODY))));

Send Email:

simpleEmailService.sendEmail(request);