Using IAM Roles for AWS SES

  • Resolved Czeide

    (@czeideavanzadoonb)


    2 years ago

    Hello.

    Asides from using access keys from an AWS IAM User, does this plugin support AWS IAM roles?

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  • Plugin Support Dake

    (@dakeg)

    Hi @czeideavanzadoonb

    Thanks for reaching out.

    Currently in order to establish a connection with AWS via our mailer, we only require the specifics from our documentation.

    To gain some insight, how would you like to use AWS IAM roles with the Amazon mailer?

    Thread Starter Czeide

    (@czeideavanzadoonb)

    Our site is hosted in an AWS EC2 instance. We have strict security requirements when creating access keys for AWS IAM users. We would prefer to use AWS IAM roles so that we don’t have to create an IAM user and an access key.

    I happened to see that the plugin uses the AWS SDK for PHP. I believe the SDK supports IAM roles because we use the SDK as well to access AWS services.

    Would the plugin still work if we used the AWS SES mailer and we don’t provide an access key?

    Plugin Support Dake

    (@dakeg)

    Hi @czeideavanzadoonb

    Thanks for clarifying and we see where you are coming from.

    Currently, we do not support AWS IAM roles, so you would need an access key.

    However, if you are interested in making custom changes to the Pro version of WP Mail SMTP, we have a filter that allows you to change the AWS Client (from SDK) args, so you can try to implement IAM roles

    wp_mail_smtp_providers_auth_aws_get_client_args

    I know this isn’t ideal, but currently, this is the only avenue for modifying the Amazon SES mailer to meet your needs.

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