Access Denied while sending email from AWS SES in Lambda function

Question

I am trying to send an email using Amazon SES in AWS Lambda function, For this i am facing the following error.

AccessDenied: User arn:aws:sts::XXXX

Answer 1

So, I was also having the same problem which Rakesh has explained but couldn't understand the steps he was saying to do so here is a detailed explanation with steps.

You need to do the following Security, Identity & Compliance -> IAM -> Roles -> select your lambda function -> then edit policy -> open it in JSON and add the below part

{
  "Effect":"Allow",
  "Action":[
    "ses:SendEmail",
    "ses:SendRawEmail"
  ],
  "Resource":"*"
}

or you can do as per requirement from these policy examples https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/control-user-access.html#iam-and-ses-examples-email-sending-actions also, you need to verify the email address first so don't forget that. Hope this helps everyone.