# IAM role ARN on AWS Destination

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/iam-role-arn-on-aws-destination/254081
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 2, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/iam-role-arn-on-aws-destination/254081 "2020-11-02T23:22:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![alfredo.deluca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alfredo.deluca/32/95381_2.png) [@alfredo.deluca](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alfredo.deluca)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/iam-role-arn-on-aws-destination/254081/1 "2020-11-02T23:22:31Z")

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Hi all.  
I have Elasticsearch on AWS and I setup a destination for the alerting to go to AWS SNS.  
In the configuration it asks 2 settings:

SNS Topic ARN and it's should be ok but also it asks about

IAM role ARN which I put my IAM ARN. Now it seems to be not working and I guess it's the AWS Role but not sure what I need to create on AWS for this.  
Any clue

cheers

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### Author: ![alfredo.deluca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alfredo.deluca/32/95381_2.png) [@alfredo.deluca](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alfredo.deluca)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/iam-role-arn-on-aws-destination/254081/2 "2020-11-03T13:12:18Z")

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This has actually fixed my problem.

[https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/setting-alerts-in-amazon-elasticsearch-service/](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/setting-alerts-in-amazon-elasticsearch-service/)

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### Author: ![Vadims\_Daleckis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vadims_daleckis/32/57613_2.png) [@Vadims\_Daleckis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vadims_Daleckis)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/iam-role-arn-on-aws-destination/254081/3 "2020-11-03T13:18:13Z")

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