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title: Create Datadog Events from Amazon SNS Emails
description: Steps for sending events to Datadog with emails from Amazon SNS
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  SNS Emails
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# Create Datadog Events from Amazon SNS Emails

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## Overview{% #overview %}

You can create Datadog events with emails sent from an Amazon SNS topic. Use this guide to subscribe your Datadog account to your SNS topic and confirm the subscription.

## Setup{% #setup %}

1. Create a dedicated email address from Datadog following the setup instructions in the [Events with email](https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/guides/email.md) guide. Copy the generated email address to your clipboard.
1. From the SNS topic that you want to subscribe to, click **Create subscription** and select `Email` as the protocol. Paste the email address from step 1 in the `Endpoint` field, configure other settings as desired, and click **Create subscription**.
1. In the Datadog [Events Explorer](https://app.datadoghq.com/event/explorer), search for an event with the subject `AWS Notification - Subscription Confirmation`. Copy the URL provided for confirmation.

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Open a new tab in your browser, and paste the URL into the address bar. The subscription is confirmed when the browser opens the URL.
### Validation{% #validation %}

Return to your SNS topic in the AWS console and ensure that the subscription status is `Confirmed`. New messages published to the topic create events in Datadog.

## Use the events in Datadog{% #use-the-events-in-datadog %}

Configure alerting based on the emails from your SNS topic with an [event monitor](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/event.md). Search and filter the events on the [Events Explorer](https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/explorer.md), or use a [dashboard](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards.md) to further analyze or display the events.

- [AWS integration](https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/amazon_web_services.md)
- [SNS integration](https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/amazon_sns.md#overview)
- [Datadog serverless monitoring for Amazon API Gateway, SQS, Kinesis, and more](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitor-aws-fully-managed-services-datadog-serverless-monitoring/)