Edit a phone number override rule in AWS End User Messaging SMS - AWS End User Messaging SMS
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Edit a phone number override rule in AWS End User Messaging SMS

To edit a phone number override rule, you can use the AWS End User Messaging SMS console, the PutProtectConfigurationRuleSetNumberOverride action in the AWS End User Messaging SMS and voice v2 API, or the put-protect-configuration-rule-set-number-override command in the AWS CLI. This section shows how to create a phone number override rule using the AWS End User Messaging SMS console and the AWS CLI. You can choose multiple phone number override rules at a time to make bulk edits.

Edit a phone number rule override (Console)

To edit a phone number override rule using the AWS End User Messaging SMS console, follow these steps:

  1. Open the AWS End User Messaging SMS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/sms-voice/.

  2. In the navigation pane, under Protect, choose Protect configuration and then choose the protect configuration.

  3. Choose the Rule overrides tab and in the Rules override section choose the phone number override rules to change. You can use Query phone number override rules to search for specific rules to edit. Choose Edit.

  4. The Destination phone numbers section you can view the details about all of you phone number override rule.

    You can remove a phone number override rule from being edited by choosing Remove in the Action column.

  5. For Override type choose either Always allow or Always block.

  6. For Expiration date – optional choose a date for the rule expire or leave it blank for the rule to never expire.

  7. Choose Save changes.

Edit a phone number rule override (AWS CLI)

You can use the put-protect-configuration-rule-set-number-override AWS CLI command to edit a new phone number rule override.

Note

Because --expiration-timestamp is not specified this rule will never expire.

$ aws pinpoint-sms-voice-v2 put-protect-configuration-rule-set-number-override --protect-configuration-id ProtectConfigurationID --destination-phone-number +12065550150 --action ACTION

In the preceding command, make the following changes:

  • Replace ProtectConfigurationID with the unique identifier of the protect configuration.

  • Replace +12065550150 with the phone number to create a rule for.

  • Replace ACTION with ALLOW to allow messages to be sent to the phone number or BLOCK to not allow messages to the phone number.