SES Status Notification with SQS FIFO Queue

Question

I used a SQS FIFO queue to buffer email status notifications from SES. To increase the processing speed, I would like to have multiple consumer processing the queue. It would requires me to add a MessageGroupId for each item.

Can I check how I can specify the MessageGroupId for the email status?

Answer

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out. I would like to echo Eduardo's thoughts here and would like to confirm your use case and how exactly you are sending the SES notifications to the SQS FIFO queue at the moment?

Currently, we can only send SES notifications to a standard SNS topic so I am curious how you are sending this to an SQS FIFO queue.  The MessageGroupID is a parameter that we need to set when sending messages to the SQS FIFO queue(unless the message comes from an SNS FIFO Queue). if you are sending messages to an SQS FIFO queue, then you are already somehow setting the MessageGroupID somewhere as this is a required parameter for SQS FIFO queues.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/API_SendMessage.html#API_SendMessage_RequestParameters
```
Important
MessageGroupId is required for FIFO queues. You can't use it for Standard queues.
```

So it seems there is some context and information that we are missing. Kindly share some additional details and we will do our best to help you.

Answer

Hi, thanks for your question. As mentioned by Ryan, SES can send notifications to SNS.
I suggest you take a look at this reference architecture and accompanying CloudFormation template to deploy this architecture: 
https://github.com/aws-samples/communication-developer-services-reference-architectures#SES-Event-Processing

Best.

SES Status Notification with SQS FIFO Queue

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