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aws_sns

Sends messages to an AWS SNS topic.

Introduced in version 3.36.0.

# Common config fields, showing default values
output:
label: ""
aws_sns:
topic_arn: "" # No default (required)
message_group_id: "" # No default (optional)
message_deduplication_id: "" # No default (optional)
max_in_flight: 64
metadata:
exclude_prefixes: []

Credentials

By default Benthos will use a shared credentials file when connecting to AWS services. It's also possible to set them explicitly at the component level, allowing you to transfer data across accounts. You can find out more in this document.

Performance

This output benefits from sending multiple messages in flight in parallel for improved performance. You can tune the max number of in flight messages (or message batches) with the field max_in_flight.

Fields

topic_arn

The topic to publish to.

Type: string

message_group_id

An optional group ID to set for messages. This field supports interpolation functions.

Type: string
Requires version 3.60.0 or newer

message_deduplication_id

An optional deduplication ID to set for messages. This field supports interpolation functions.

Type: string
Requires version 3.60.0 or newer

max_in_flight

The maximum number of messages to have in flight at a given time. Increase this to improve throughput.

Type: int
Default: 64

metadata

Specify criteria for which metadata values are sent as headers.

Type: object
Requires version 3.60.0 or newer

metadata.exclude_prefixes

Provide a list of explicit metadata key prefixes to be excluded when adding metadata to sent messages.

Type: array
Default: []

timeout

The maximum period to wait on an upload before abandoning it and reattempting.

Type: string
Default: "5s"

region

The AWS region to target.

Type: string
Default: ""

endpoint

Allows you to specify a custom endpoint for the AWS API.

Type: string
Default: ""

credentials

Optional manual configuration of AWS credentials to use. More information can be found in this document.

Type: object

credentials.profile

A profile from ~/.aws/credentials to use.

Type: string
Default: ""

credentials.id

The ID of credentials to use.

Type: string
Default: ""

credentials.secret

The secret for the credentials being used.

Secret

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn't be added to a config directly, read our secrets page for more info.

Type: string
Default: ""

credentials.token

The token for the credentials being used, required when using short term credentials.

Type: string
Default: ""

credentials.from_ec2_role

Use the credentials of a host EC2 machine configured to assume an IAM role associated with the instance.

Type: bool
Default: false
Requires version 4.2.0 or newer

credentials.role

A role ARN to assume.

Type: string
Default: ""

credentials.role_external_id

An external ID to provide when assuming a role.

Type: string
Default: ""