DeadLetterQueue - AWS Serverless Application Model
SyntaxPropertiesExamples

DeadLetterQueue

Specifies an SQS queue or SNS topic that AWS Lambda (Lambda) sends events to when it can't process them. For more information about dead letter queue functionality, see Dead-letter queues in the AWS Lambda Developer Guide.

SAM will automatically add appropriate permission to your Lambda function execution role to give Lambda service access to the resource. sqs:SendMessage will be added for SQS queues and sns:Publish for SNS topics.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) template, use the following syntax.

YAML

  TargetArn: String
  Type: String

Properties

TargetArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic.

Type: String

Required: Yes

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is passed directly to the TargetArn property of the AWS::Lambda::Function DeadLetterConfig data type.

Type

The type of dead letter queue.

Valid values: SNS, SQS

Type: String

Required: Yes

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is unique to AWS SAM and doesn't have an AWS CloudFormation equivalent.

Examples

DeadLetterQueue

Dead Letter Queue example for an SNS topic.

YAML

DeadLetterQueue:
  Type: SNS
  TargetArn: arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:my-topic