Build a Two-Way Email-to-SMS Service with Amazon SES and Amazon End User Messaging
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This article describes how to build a two-way communication system that bridges email and SMS using Amazon SES and Amazon End User Messaging services.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview: Sending email to SMS recipients, and receiving SMS replies as emails
- Step-by-step walkthrough to deploy the solution using CloudFormation templates
- Prerequisites: Verified SES identity, origination identity for SMS, etc.
- Testing and cleaning up instructions
- Additional considerations like costs, limitations, and sandbox mode
- Conclusion highlighting the benefits of the unified email-SMS communication system
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