ValidationError with SES ReceiptRuleSet and ReceiptRuleOptions

[hinnerk]

Hello,

can someone help me with getting this SES configuration working? I am trying to closely follow the documentation but
run into a ValidationError.

Action execution failed
Template format error: Unrecognized resource types: [AWS::SES::ReceiptRule, AWS::SES::ReceiptRuleSet] (Service: AmazonCloudFormation; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ValidationError; Request ID: fb7fde40-2521-4a31-97ec-7dafe7543f99)

I do not understand this error message, as AWS::SES::ReceiptRule and AWS::SES::ReceiptRuleSet should be valid ressource types in the region that I am deploying to (eu-central-1).

Here is a minimized example from my code. It is very similar to the documentation:

from aws_cdk import (
    aws_s3 as s3,
    aws_ses as ses,
    aws_ses_actions as actions,
    aws_sns as sns,
    core
)


class SomeStack(core.Stack):
    def __init__(self, scope: core.Construct, id: str, **kwargs) -> None:
        super().__init__(scope, id, **kwargs)

        self.bucket = s3.Bucket(self, "SomeBucket")
        self.topic = sns.Topic(self, "SomeTopic")

        # [...]

        ses.ReceiptRuleSet(
            self,
            "ReceiptRuleSet",
            rules=[
                ses.ReceiptRuleOptions(
                    enabled=True,
                    recipients=["[email protected]"],
                    actions=[
                        actions.S3(
                            bucket=self.bucket,
                            object_key_prefix="email/",
                            topic=self.topic,
                        ),
                    ],
                )
            ],
        )

The IDE and also checking type hints with mypy shows that something is amiss:

<filename>.py:209: error: List item 0 has incompatible type "S3"; expected "IReceiptRuleAction"
<filename>.py:209: note: 'S3' is missing following 'IReceiptRuleAction' protocol member:
<filename>.py:209: note:     __jsii_proxy_class__

Any ideas?

[hinnerk]

Resolved this following four steps:

1. realize that while many regions support SES, only three of them support receiving emails (reference)
2. change region accordingly
3. somehow type hints are misguided in this part of CDK, so just ignore all typing errors in this part of your code
4. work out the consequences if your architecture just unexpectedly became a cross-region architecture ;)

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