Using the Publish SNS Message action

Use the Publish SNS Message action to relay Bamboo notifications, JIRA workflow transitions and JIRA Service Desk automation rule executions via the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), a fast, flexible, fully managed push notification service that lets you send individual messages or to fan-out messages to large numbers of recipients:

Amazon SNS makes it simple and cost effective to send push notifications to mobile device users, email recipients or even send messages to other distributed services.
With Amazon SNS, you can send notifications to Apple, Google, Fire OS, and Windows devices, as well as to Android devices in China with Baidu Cloud Push. You can use SNS to send SMS messages to mobile device users worldwide.
Beyond these endpoints, Amazon SNS can also deliver messages to Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS Lambda functions, or to any HTTP endpoint.

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Injecting contextual entity variables into action payloads
Amazon Web Services
- CLI: sns . publish
- API: SNS >> Publish
- Console: Publish to a Topic
Using the Invoke Lambda Function action
Using the Start Step Functions Execution action

Integrations

You can use the Publish SNS Message action with the following integrations:

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Requirements

The Publish SNS Message action requires sufficient IAM permissions - an adequate IAM policy similar to the one provisioned by the Automation with AWS (Core) CloudFormation template might look as follows:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": [
                "sns:GetTopicAttributes",
                "sns:ListTopics",
                "sns:Publish"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Sid": "SNSPublishMessageAndDiscoverTopics"
        }
    ]
}

Refer to Controlling User Access to Your AWS Account for details on how to create more granular/secure policies, including a few Example Policies for Amazon SNS.

Configuration

To configure a Publish SNS Message action:

Complete the following settings:

Parameters

Specify the action parameters according to the following skeleton in JSON format – refer to sns . publish for details:

You must specify exactly one parameter out of TopicArn, PhoneNumber or TargetArn.

You can inject contextual variables into the remote action payload, refer to Entity Variables for details.

Publish SNS Message skeleton

{
    "TopicArn": "",
    "TargetArn": "",
    "PhoneNumber": "",
    "Message": "",
    "Subject": "",
    "MessageStructure": "",
    "MessageAttributes": {
        "KeyName": {
            "DataType": "",
            "StringValue": "",
            "BinaryValue": null
        }
    }
}

Entity Variables

You can inject contextual variables with workflow entities into the remote action payload template – currently available entities are:

Examples

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Publish SNS Message - raw text format — This parameters template demonstrates publishing a SNS message in raw text format with the Publish SNS Message action:

Publish SNS Message parameters example (raw text format)

{
  "TopicArn": "arn:aws:sns:ap-southeast-2:123456789012:sample-AutomationWithAWSQuickstartSNSTopic-15EO7TT8O93XT",
  "Message": "$event.simpleName with trace ID $event.traceId triggered at $event.timestamp",
  "Subject": "Automation with AWS: $event.simpleName triggered at $event.timestamp"
}

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Publish SNS Message - structured JSON format
— This parameters template demonstrates publishing a SNS message in structured JSON format with the Publish SNS Message action:
JSON escaping requirements
If a parameter within the JSON formatted parameters template is a JSON structure in itself (e.g. the Lambda function payload), it needs to be escaped before adding it as a value - this has two implications:
custom content needs to be escaped, which can be achieved by Composing action payloads with utility functions, specifically the $util.escapeJson() function
variables with conflicting content (e.g. multi line variables like JIRA's $issue.fields.description or Bamboo's $notification.textEmailContent or JSON structures retrieved via JSONPath) need to be escaped twice, via $util.escapeJson($util.escapeJson(...)) - we are exploring options on how to make this easier in a future release
JSON Message Generator
The AWS Management Console features a JSON Message Generator that eases composition of the required JSON message structure, refer to section Create Different Messages for Each Protocol for within Publish to a topic for details.
Publish SNS Message parameters example (structured JSON format – escaped manually)
{ "TopicArn": "arn:aws:sns:ap-southeast-2:123456789012:sample-AutomationWithAWSQuickstartSNSTopic-15EO7TT8O93XT", "Message": "{ \"default\": \"$event.simpleName with trace ID $event.traceId triggered at $event.timestamp\"}", "MessageStructure": "json", "Subject": "Automation with AWS: $event.simpleName triggered at $event.timestamp" }
Publish SNS Message parameters example (structured JSON format – escaped with utility function)
{ "TopicArn": "arn:aws:sns:ap-southeast-2:123456789012:sample-AutomationWithAWSQuickstartSNSTopic-15EO7TT8O93XT", "Message": "$util.escapeJson('{ "default": "$event.simpleName with trace ID $event.traceId triggered at $event.timestamp" }')", "MessageStructure": "json", "Subject": "Automation with AWS: $event.simpleName triggered at $event.timestamp" }

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Send SMS Message — This parameters template demonstrates sending a SMS message directly to a phone number with the Publish SNS Message action:

Send SMS Message parameters example

{
  "PhoneNumber": "+61.1234567890",
  "Message": "Automation with AWS: $event.simpleName with trace ID $event.traceId triggered at $event.timestamp",
  "MessageAttributes": {
    "AWS.SNS.SMS.SenderID": {
      "DataType": "String",
      "StringValue": "Utoolity"
    }
  }
}

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