Use existing AWS resources

AWS will end support for Amazon Pinpoint on October 30, 2026,, and is no longer accepting any new users as of May 20 (see the linked doc). The guidance is to use AWS End User Messaging for push notifications and SMS, Amazon Simple Email Service for sending emails, Amazon Connect for campaigns, journeys, endpoints, and engagement analytics. Pinpoint recommends Amazon Kinesis for event collection and mobile analytics.

To use existing Amazon Pinpoint resources with your Amplify backend or frontend application, use the addOutput method to surface backend resource outputs to the amplify_outputs.json file:

amplify/backend.ts
import { defineBackend } from "@aws-amplify/backend"
const backend = defineBackend({})
backend.addOutput({
  analytics: {
    amazon_pinpoint: {
      aws_region: "<your-aws-region>",
      app_id: "<your-pinpoint-app-id>",

Update your IAM Policy

Amazon Pinpoint requires an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy in order to use the record and identifyUser APIs:

  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": ["mobiletargeting:UpdateEndpoint", "mobiletargeting:PutEvents"],
      "Resource": ["arn:aws:mobiletargeting:*:<your-account-id>:apps/<your-pinpoint-app-id>*"]

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