AWS Messaging Blog
Author: Dustin Taylor
Dustin Taylor is the Manager for the Amazon SES Deliverability team. His focus is both external and internal in helping improve inbox placement for SES customers and finding new ways to fight email abuse. In his off-time he enjoys going bass fishing and is a hobbyist woodworker.
The Four Pillars of Managing Email Reputation
Introduction A sender’s domain and IP reputation strongly indicate email deliverability success. Maintaining a high reputation ensures optimal recipient inboxing. This blog outlines how Amazon SES protects its network reputation to help customers deliver high-quality email consistently. Understanding sender reputation nuances across diverse mailbox providers can be challenging, making issue identification and root cause analysis […]
An Overview of Bulk Sender Changes at Yahoo/Gmail
In a move to safeguard user inboxes, Gmail and Yahoo Mail announced a new set of requirements for senders effective from February 2024. Let’s delve into the specifics and what Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) customers need to do to comply with these requirements. What are the new email sender requirements? The new requirements include long-standing best practices […]
How to send your first email on SES
Introduction Sending your first email on any service can be complicated. In this blog we will walk you through how to send your first email on Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) through the SES Console and to direct you to examples of how you can send email through the AWS SDK. Our public documentation includes […]
How to test email sending and monitoring
Introduction When setting up your email sending infrastructure and connections to APIs it is necessary to ensure proper setup. It is also important to ensure that after making changes to your sending pipeline that you verify that your application is working as expected. Not only is it important to test your sending processes, but it’s […]
Changes to our sending review process
We’re changing some of the language we use in our sending review process to make our communications clearer and more helpful. If you’re not familiar with the sending review process, it refers to the actions that we take when there are issues with the email sent from an Amazon SES or Amazon Pinpoint account. Usually, […]
Troubleshooting event publishing issues in Amazon SES
Over the past year, we’ve released several features that make it easier to track the metrics that are associated with your Amazon SES account. The first of these features, launched in November of last year, was event publishing. Initially, event publishing let you capture basic metrics related to your email sending and publish them to […]