AccessDenied! (attempting to send email on Lambda)

[nelsonic]

Attempting to run the Lambda function on Lambda getting the following error:

{
  "errorType": "AccessDenied",
  "errorMessage": "User `arn:aws:sts::123456789:assumed-role/LambdaExecRole/aws-ses-lambda-v1' is not authorized to perform `ses:SendEmail' on resource `arn:aws:ses:eu-west-1:123456789:identity/[email protected]'",
  "trace": [
    "AccessDenied: User `arn:aws:sts::123456789:assumed-role/LambdaExecRole/aws-ses-lambda-v1' is not authorized to perform `ses:SendEmail' on resource `arn:aws:ses:eu-west-1:123456789:identity/[email protected]'",
    "    at Request.extractError (/var/task/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/protocol/query.js:50:29)",
    "    at Request.callListeners (/var/task/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/sequential_executor.js:106:20)",
    "    at Request.emit (/var/task/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/sequential_executor.js:78:10)",
    "    at Request.emit (/var/task/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/request.js:683:14)",
    "    at Request.transition (/var/task/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/request.js:22:10)",
    "    at AcceptorStateMachine.runTo (/var/task/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/state_machine.js:14:12)",
    "    at /var/task/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/state_machine.js:26:10",
    "    at Request.<anonymous> (/var/task/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/request.js:38:9)",
    "    at Request.<anonymous> (/var/task/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/request.js:685:12)",
    "    at Request.callListeners (/var/task/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/sequential_executor.js:116:18)"
  ]
}

Investigating now ... 🔍

[nelsonic]

Turns out that the AWS related environment variables are not included in the .env file that gets exported ... so we need a better way of doing this ... >> dwyl/aws-lambda-deploy#58

[nelsonic]

Sadly, the environment variable approach is not going to work because AWS blocks it!!
See: dwyl/aws-lambda-deploy#58 (comment)
GOTO: #11