This tutorial explains how to set up an AWS IoT rule to trigger email notifications upon receiving IoT messages. It covers the steps to configure the necessary SNS service for email notifications and provides a testing method to ensure functionality. The process involves creating a rule in IoT Core, configuring SNS, and testing by publishing a message to an IoT topic.

1. AWS IoT Rule for Email Notification Triggering
In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to setup IoT rule in order to trigger email
notification on IoT message reception.
Summary :
● How to Setup IoT Rule.
● Configure email based SNS Service Notification Service.
● Tests: Publish a message to IoT Topic and receive email notification.
Goto IoT Core -> Act -> Rules and hit “Create” .

2. Populate Rule “Name” and “Description”
then fill in the query statement with your own topic
and then hit “add action”
Select SNS Push Notification and hit “configure action”

3. Fill in “SNS target”, “Message format” and create Role as below then hit “Add action”
Goto “Simple Notification Service “ (​SNS​) from the main console menu:

4. Select “Subscriptions” from the left side menu and hit “create subscription”
Fill in “Topic ARN”, “email” as protocol and your email address.
Then hit “Create Subscription”

5. Test:
Go back to IoT Core Service ->Test->Publish to a topic
Fill in with the topic name and the message to send and hit “Publish to topic”
Check your inbox
That’s all!
Hope you enjoyed
With Regards,
Mahmoud BEN TAHAR