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A contact channel is the method that Incident Manager uses to engage your contact.

post/#X-Amz-Target=SSMContacts.CreateContactChannel

Headers

X-Amz-Target'SSMContacts.CreateContactChannel' required

Request body

ContactIdstring required

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the contact you are adding the contact channel to.

Namestring required

The name of the contact channel.

Type'SMS' | 'VOICE' | 'EMAIL' required
<p>Incident Manager supports three types of contact channels:</p> <ul> <li> <p> <code>SMS</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>VOICE</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>EMAIL</code> </p> </li> </ul>
DeferActivationboolean

If you want to activate the channel at a later time, you can choose to defer activation. Incident Manager can't engage your contact channel until it has been activated.

IdempotencyTokenstring

A token ensuring that the operation is called only once with the specified details.

Response

Success

ContactChannelArnstring required

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the contact channel.