Automate adding an email addresses to AWS account suppression list

Here's the gist of how you can set it up:

First off, create an SNS topic to catch those complaint notifications. Then, subscribe the SES notification service to this topic. This way, whenever there's a complaint, it'll ping this topic.

Now, when a complaint notification hits this SNS topic, shoot a message over to another SNS topic with the email address that got complained about.

Set up a Lambda function to listen in on this second SNS topic. When it hears about a complained email address, it'll spring into action. The Lambda function's job is to use the ses:AddEmailAddressToSuppressionList API to add that email address to your account's suppression list.

Oh, and if you're feeling fancy, you can also tweak things a bit. For instance, you might want to filter out or process the email addresses before tossing them onto the suppression list. Maybe remove any addresses that have been recently suppressed to keep things tidy.

And there you have it! With this setup, you'll be automating the updating of your suppression list whenever a complaint comes in. No more manual adding of email addresses every time. The SNS topics serve as the link between the SES notifications and the Lambda function that handles the suppression list updates.