title: AWS How to send emails and notifications to individual users
body: <p>So I am making an app that monitors when food expires. </p>
  
  <p>each user has a list of food and that is stored in dynamo db.</p>
  
  <p>In my table I store the user's email address and when an item expires for a user. </p>
  
  <p>I want to make an aws service that sends users an email and/or notification when an item is close to expiring. </p>
  
  <p>I tried to make a lambda function based on <a href="https://github.com/eleven41/aws-lambda-send-ses-email" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/eleven41/aws-lambda-send-ses-email</a>
  but I realize that I need to verify the emails to send notifications. </p>
  
  <p>I am not sure if I am going about this correctly. What would be the proper aws setup to send user notifications in AWS?</p>