# AWS SES Template type unrecognized

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/aws-ses-template-type-unrecognized/6188>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Tags:** aws\
**Created:** [October 19, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/aws-ses-template-type-unrecognized/6188 "2018-10-19T15:22:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![henhal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/henhal/32/2671_2.png) [@henhal](https://forum.serverless.com/u/henhal)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/aws-ses-template-type-unrecognized/6188/1 "2018-10-19T15:22:12Z")

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I’m trying to add an AWS SES template to my serverless resources, but I keep getting “unrecognized type” for AWS::SES::Template.  
This is definitely a defined CloudFormation resource type, so I don’t know what’s going on. Any ideas?

```auto
resources:
  Resources:
    EmailNotificationTemplate:
      Type: AWS::SES::Template
      Properties:
        Template:
          TemplateName: "test"
          TextPart: "body text"
          SubjectPart: "subject"

```

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**Author:** ![henhal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/henhal/32/2671_2.png) [@henhal](https://forum.serverless.com/u/henhal)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/aws-ses-template-type-unrecognized/6188/2 "2018-10-23T18:45:17Z")

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Turns out this was due to SES not being available in the region I was using. It sure would’ve been nice with a error message such as “type not supported in region”, but instead the generic “unrecognized type” was raised.

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**Author:** ![Enase](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/enase/32/2687_2.png) [@Enase](https://forum.serverless.com/u/Enase)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/aws-ses-template-type-unrecognized/6188/3 "2018-12-23T20:19:49Z")

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consider to use [serverless-ses-template](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@haftahave/serverless-ses-template) plugin