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

After a long debugging i got the issue, "lambda_basic_execution" role need to be granted with permission to access "ses:SendEmail", "ses:SendRawEmail".

Where i was trying to grant permission for the new IAM role i have created, but lambda function is mapped to "lambda_basic_execution" so there is a mismatch.

Reference - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/control-user-access.html#iam-and-ses-examples-email-sending-actions