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Category: Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

How Fanatics Commerce built a scalable email platform on Amazon SES

Learn how Fanatics Commerce built a scalable transactional email platform on Amazon SES, handling 48x volume growth across peak seasons while maintaining high deliverability through managed dedicated IPs, multi-tenant isolation, and real-time observability.

Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) pricing plans

Most email providers offer capabilities to help improve deliverability, including dedicated sending infrastructure, reputation monitoring, address validation, and inbox placement testing. But these capabilities are typically sold as individual add-ons, each priced separately. Reaching the inbox consistently shouldn’t require evaluating dozens of options independently. That changes today with Amazon SES pricing plans. Pick a plan, and the right capabilities are already included at up to 22% less than purchasing them individually.

Using Amazon Mail Manager SMTP to send email via Amazon Simple Email Service

In this post, you configure Amazon SES Mail Manager to send outbound email in a Region that does not offer the classic SES SMTP endpoint. This post uses eusc-de-east-1 (AWS European Sovereign Cloud) as an example, but the same steps apply to AWS Regions where Mail Manager is available and the classic SMTP endpoint is not.

Building a Scalable Messaging API with AWS End User Messaging and SES

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to build a template manager and messaging API using API Gateway with JWT authentication for secure access, Amazon SQS for reliable message queuing, AWS Lambda for serverless processing, AWS End User Messaging for SMS, and Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) for email.

How to improve email sender reputation with Amazon SES Email Validation

In this post, we show you how the Amazon SES Email Validation feature can help you to protect your sender reputation using two validation approaches: the Email Validation API for timely checks during registration and Auto Validation to automatically review all outbound email addresses before sending and only deliver messages to recipients that meet your selected validation threshold. Both methods are intended to catch problem addresses before they become bounces, helping to protect your sender reputation.

Enhance email security using VPC endpoints with Amazon SES Manager

This post demonstrates how to implement VPC endpoints with Amazon SES Mail Manager using exercises from the Amazon SES Mail Manager workshop. We show how to configure VPC endpoints, security groups, and ingress endpoints to maintain private network connectivity for your email processing workflows.