Sending Personalized eNotifications for the Community Events

Inspiration

The AWS Community in India has grown massively over the past years. We now span 25 cities in 20 states, and we have hosted hundreds of virtual, in-person, and hybrid events. Running a developer community such as AWS User Group India involves a lot of effort from organizers and volunteers to host events and drive initiatives that benefits the larger community. To send an email notification about the events or sending a mail campaign about the event to the registered participants, Amazon Pinpoint service can be used.

What it does

Amazon Pinpoint is an AWS service that you can use to communicate with your customers through multiple messaging channels. You can use Amazon Pinpoint to send push notifications, in-app notifications, emails, text messages, voice messages, and messages through your user channels. It includes segmentation, campaign and journey features that help you send the right message to the right customers, through the right channels, at the right time.

How we built it

Created a Project
Created a segment and imported the sample segment
Created a campaign
Created a customized message template and used it to send mail to endpoints
Activated a new version to send a mail with user attributes.

Challenges we ran into

Currently Amazon pinpoint is in sandbox type, there are some limitations in it. But after checking some AWS docs, able to resolve the issues.
When designing a message template, Faced some issues in configuring the user attribute. After using the design window, able to resolve it.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Email Template has been created from the scratch via HTML and it has been designed successfully.
eNotifications have been received with the template for the configured endpoints.