SES dashboard is displaying an Unknown Error

Question

When I log into my dashboard with my IAM account, I get a red banner that says:
"Unknown Error. Request failed with unknown error, ensure that you have the necessary permissions and that all fields have correct values."

My user has AmazonSESFullAccess permissions. I don't recall seeing this error the last time I had logged in, which admittedly was quite a while ago.  My web app is not sending some emails which caused to log into SES, and this is the first thing I see. I don't know if it's related to my problem but I thought this would be a good place to start.

Accepted Answer

Hi!  Good question.  You may be running into issues on the AWS Console where even listing/displaying certain things still ties back to a Describe or List API (Think view and read) permissions from AWS.  Only having AmazonSESFullAccess will only have actions contained within SES (SES:*).  I would typically recommend attaching another AWS Managed policy on your user such as ViewOnlyAccess or ReadOnlyAccess.  Keep in mind ViewOnlyAccess is a limited set of View/Metadata Permissions while ReadOnlyAccess has possible Data read as well.  These policies may help you avoid Console view issues that may prompt the errors you are facing.

SES dashboard is displaying an Unknown Error

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