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Using one-click unsubscribe with Amazon SES

Gmail and Yahoo have announced new requirements for bulk senders that take effect in February 2024. The requirements aim to reduce delivery of malicious or unwanted email to the users of these mailbox providers. We recommend that Amazon SES senders who operate outside of the SES sandbox assume these bulk sender requirements apply to them. […]

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 […]

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Amazon SES: Email Authentication and Getting Value out of Your DMARC Policy

Amazon SES: Email Authentication and Getting Value out of Your DMARC Policy Introduction For enterprises of all sizes, email is a critical piece of infrastructure that supports large volumes of communication. To enhance the security and trustworthiness of email communication, many organizations turn to email sending providers (ESPs) like Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES). […]

How to secure your email account and improve email sender reputation

How to secure your email account and improve email sender reputation Introduction Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service that enables customers to send email from within any application. You can send email using the SES SMTP interface or via HTTP requests to the SES API. All requests […]

Improve email delivery rates with email delivery and engagement history for every email

Email is a ubiquitous way to reach customers, whether to stay in touch, offer new services, or inform customers of product changes or transaction status. Amazon Simple Email Service helps customers send hundreds of billions of emails each month, and now offers more tools to improve email delivery rates and explore campaign success. SES’ Virtual […]

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Migrating to a cloud ESP: How to onboard to Amazon SES

Amazon SES: Email remains a powerful tool for businesses, whether for marketing campaigns, transactional notifications, or other communications. Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cloud email service provider that can integrate into any application for bulk email sending. Amazon SES is an email service that supports a variety of deployments like transactional emails, […]

Amazon Simple Email Service adds email delivery features to revised free tier

On August 1st, 2023, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) will launch a revised, more flexible free tier that allows AWS customers to try more SES features without commitment or cost. SES customers will be able to send or receive up to 3,000 messages each month for a year after they begin using SES, free of […]

Architecture diagram of the solution: new templates in Amazon SES are created by a Lambda function accessed through API Gateway. THe Lambda function reads and writes HTML from S3 and reads and writes metadata from DynamoDB.

How quirion created nested email templates using Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

This is part two of the two-part guest series on extending Simple Email Services with advanced functionality. Find part one here. quirion, founded in 2013, is an award-winning German robo-advisor with more than 1 billion Euro under management. At quirion, we send out five thousand emails a day to more than 60,000 customers. Managing many […]

How quirion sends attachments using email templates with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

This is part one of the two-part guest series on extending Simple Email Services with advanced functionality. Find part two here. Update: The TestRenderEmailTemplate API used to send emails with attachments has a limit of 1 operation per second. If your expected peak traffic is higher than this, the solution demonstrated in this case study may […]