---
title: "Event Notifications: Configuring, Creating, and Managing"
slug: "event-notifications-bucket"
description: "Event Notifications inform you of specific Wasabi S3 events. Enable or disable event notifications through bucket Settings (Properties panel). "
tags: ["Account Settings", "Create Event Notification", "Event Notifications", "Properties"]
updated: 2026-03-10T18:16:12Z
published: 2026-03-10T18:16:12Z
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Event Notifications: Configuring, Creating, and Managing

An event notification triggers Wasabi to email you about specific Wasabi S3 events. To set up an event notification, you specify:

- An AWS region and access keys for that region. This is done by configuring AWS credentials, as described in [Configuring Credentials for Event Notifications](https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/managing-event-notifications).
- The general configuration, event type, and destination where you want Amazon S3 to send the notifications. This is done by creating the event notification, as described below.

> This feature requires that you have an AWS SNS account.

> Before Amazon S3 can publish messages to a destination, you must grant the Amazon S3 principal the necessary permissions to call the relevant API to publish messages to an SNS topic.

## Configuring Credentials

If you do not have any event notification credentials defined, the **Event Notifications** option will appear as shown below. You can click on the link to configure AWS credentials.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-1718726004281.png)

Instructions for configuring, replacing, and deleting event notification credentials are described in [Configuring Credentials for Event Notifications](https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/managing-event-notifications).

## Creating an Event Notification

1. On the Buckets list, click ![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-1698327400423.png) for the desired bucket.
2. Click **Settings**.
3. On the Properties panel, open the **Event Notifications**drop-down.
4. Click **Create Event Notification**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-1719156601928.png)
5. As shown with tabs listed on the left of the panel, you will define three types of information:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-1719156643313.png)

For the general configuration, enter an event name of up to 255 characters. In addition, you can define:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-1719156711941.png)
  - General Configuration
  - Event Type
  - Destination
  - Prefix, which limits the notifications to objects that start with the characters you specify here.
  - Suffix, which limits the notifications to objects that end with the characters you specify here.
6. Click **Next**.
7. For the event type, select at least one type of event for which you want to receive notifications. When you select an "All" option (such as **All ObjectCreated events**in the example below), all of the sub-options (to the right) are selected by default.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-1719160006262.png)
8. Click **Next**.
9. For the destination, select the AWS region (destination) to publish the event. Then select the SNS topic.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-1719160069329.png)
10. Click **Create**. The new event notification will display in a list of notification definitions. For example:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-V8R0GKUO.png)
11. Optionally, you can move the slider to indicate you want to receive additional information in the event notification email: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-RG0GPYJB.png). This information consists of data about the user who triggered the notification associated with the event. See “Interpreting an Event Notification” below.

When you create an event notification, you will receive a TestEvent email. For example:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-P8Q59H7Y.png)

## Editing an Event Notification

1. On the Event Notifications list, click ![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-1698327400423.png) in the Action column for the desired event.
2. Select **Edit**.
3. Modify the event notification, as described in “Creating an Event Notification.”

## Deleting an Event Notification

1. On the Event Notifications list, click ![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-1698327400423.png) in the Action column for the desired event.
2. Select **Delete**.
3. Confirm that you want to delete the event notification.

## Interpreting an Event Notification

If you configured `s3:ObjectCreated:Put` for your event notification, you will receive an email when an object is uploaded to the bucket. For example:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-32MVLHKY.png)

If you enabled the option to **Receive additional information**, the event notification email will include the additional information as `enhancedParameters`. For example:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/image-O4BL2S2N.png)

Note that the event notification triggered by Lifecycle does not show `enhancedParameters` additional information (highlighted above) even when you enable the **Recieve additional information**option.