How to send a text using AWS and Serverless - Complete Tutorial - SMS API

[@chefon4923]

When I use the code I cloned from the repository and run sls deploy, it produces this
"cmdlet Select-String at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Path[0]: "
I don't seem to understand what to provide there

[@pavithrab2884]

Try running it from command prompt or inside VS code in the terminal section to your extreme right you can see down arrow symbol,click on that select command prompt and run the command

[@1407link]

Thanks chamo, you are the best! Could you please teach us how to add authorizers to lambdas? So that only logged users can call them. Thanks in advance!!

[@CompleteCoding]

Great idea. I've covered Cognito before but never actually how to add that to an endpoint

[@arpantrivedi2380]

All the time, I am getting an error in the cloudwatch i.e "Sandboxed account unable to send to number.", Now if I verify the number (In the SNS => Mobile => Text Messaging(SMS) => Sandbox destination phone numbers) only then I am getting the SMS, So, my question is there any other way to receive the SMS in any phone number ?

[@CompleteCoding]

You can make a request to move your account out of sandbox mode. This will allow you to send to messages to any mobile number. There are some requirements for getting your account unlocked though

[@Arrival_On_Demand]

Hi, can you make tutorial video for sms send to user from wordpress website by using pinpoint sms service & lambda ?? if you make it, please make full tutorial and step by step.

[@CompleteCoding]

I'm assuming that you could create a wordpress plugin which calls the API from this video. I've never worked with wordpress before so I'm not certain how it would work.

[@niteshkumar3433]

How I can send my failed messages to dead letter queue with using sns client from lambda using phone number rather sending from topic and subscribing

[@CompleteCoding]

I've not worked with the dead letter queue from SNS so couldn't advise you on that

[@truthseeker2171]

Thanks for the video. But has anyone ever wondered why SMS is so darn expensive? You can literally send huge contents over the internet for cheap, but plain unsecured text seems to be this expensive per sms. Why is that?

[@CompleteCoding]

Good point. A quick Google says that it's because phone companies are greedy. It uses almost none of their network bandwidth but people pay it so they keep charging for it

[@gtanmoy]

Hi, Thanks for this nice video. Can you make a video on to send sms and email from a single lambda function when an item inserted to dynamoDB?

[@CompleteCoding]

You should be able to combine the code from this video, the video on emails (th-cam.com/video/4o6GCiUX8Xk/w-d-xo.html) and the one of dynamo write (th-cam.com/video/AguTaMQGACE/w-d-xo.html) to get that functionality. Let me know how that goes

[@elrichlee2372]

i hit the subscribe button, are not
you going to let us see the response.js file in the video? or did you assume all the viewers already know how to create responses?

[@CompleteCoding]

This video builds off what I've covered in a previous video but here's the code.
const Responses = {
_DefineResponse(statusCode = 502, data = {}) {
return {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Access-Control-Allow-Methods': '*',
'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*',
},
statusCode,
body: JSON.stringify(data),
};
},
_200(data = {}) {
return this._DefineResponse(200, data);
},
_204(data = {}) {
return this._DefineResponse(204, data);
},
_400(data = {}) {
return this._DefineResponse(400, data);
},
_404(data = {}) {
return this._DefineResponse(404, data);
},
};
export default Responses;

[@veronicaluceriano2101]

Hello. What extension do you use in vscode for the aws suggestion when coding?

[@CompleteCoding]

There is a plugin called "Serverless IDE" and I think that is the one you're talking about. It is good but not perfect

[@rakeshkumarbadal651]

where you are writing this code? It is on aws api gateway?

[@CompleteCoding]

The code ( the JavaScript part) for this is all Lambda code.
The section where we are in the serverless.yml file is configuration for AWS. This is telling it to create a lambda with the sendSMS handler code, as well as adding an API Gateway endpoint that triggers the event for that lambda. I hope that helps.

[@ajaypherwani9068]

To send reminders for registered events

[@CompleteCoding]

Thats a nice use case. There are services out there that you could completely replace with this

[@khushbookabra1354]

How to make it both way communication it is only one way?????

[@CompleteCoding]

unfortunately SNS only works with sending messages at the moment. You could use a platform like twilio (which has a great API) for sending and receiving messages. SNS is more about sending updates to users

[@khushbookabra1354]

Thank you for reply🙂😇

[@orrlevinger]

it didnt work for me.. didnt get any SMS.. do i need to cofigure anything else in the AWS colsole to enable SMS ?

[@CompleteCoding]

You may have to check which countries are automatically allowed by AWS. I think that some you will have to make a request to send messages to. Have a search of the AWS docs.

[@TheTanmayjain]

Have you configure cloudwatch logs for SNS text messaging service ? you can find reason in the logs

[@johnnguyen1655]

Same here, the api got execute but no sms was sent. did you find out the solution yet?

[@AbrahamSalloum]

check that your regions match.

[@rakeshkumarbadal651]

AWS CDK?

[@CompleteCoding]

I'm looking into the best way to teach the AWS CDK and will be making a video shortly. Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss out on that.

[@thegaelamin975]

Hi , just have question how can i send notification to specific user using id or another attribute , is there any way to set another target rather than phone number