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Category: Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
How To Build an Email Service on SES
Important Update (10/31/2024) – Amazon WorkMail now supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) through integration with AWS IAM Identity Center! Please see the What’s New announcement and the Amazon WorkMail documentation for more information. Foundations Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) handles hundreds of billions of email messages every month. While many are outbound, one of the fastest-growing […]
How to list over 1000 email addresses from account-level suppression list
Overview of solution Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) offers an account-level suppression list, which assists customers in avoiding sending emails to addresses that have previously resulted in bounce or complaint events. This feature is designed to protect the sender’s reputation and enhance message delivery rates. There are various types of suppression lists available, including the […]
How to verify an email address in SES which does not have an inbox
Overview of solution Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is an email platform that provides a straightforward and cost-effective solution for sending and receiving emails using your own email addresses and domains. One of the most common use cases for using separate verified from email address is in online retails/e-commerce platforms. Online/e-commerce platform need to […]
How to investigate what happened to the email that was sent via SES but was never received in recipient inbox
How to investigate what happened to the email that was sent via SES but was never received in recipient inbox Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is an email platform that provides an easy, cost-effective way for you to send and receive email using your own email addresses and domains. You can use SES for two […]
What is a spam trap and why you should care
Introduction While there are many variations of spam traps, they all share one thing in common: they are all addresses that should not be receiving mail. According to Spamhaus, an industry leader in anti-spam efforts that many ISPs and email service providers refer to and ingest spam trap listing data from, “A spam trap is […]
Amazon SES – How to track email deliverability to domain level with CloudWatch
Why is it important to track email deliverability per domain with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)? Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a scalable cloud email service provider that enables businesses to build a large-scale email solution and host multiple domains from the same SES account for different purposes ex: one domain for sending […]
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 send messages to multiple recipients with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Introduction Customers frequently ask what is the best way to send messages to multiple recipients using Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) with the best deliverability and without exceeding the maximum recipient’s per message limit. In this blog, we will show you how to determine the best approach for sending a message to multiple recipients based […]
Manage Incoming Emails at Scale with Amazon SES
NOTE: This blog was originally published in June 2023 and has been updated on June 6, 2024 to include a link to the announcement of the recently launched feature called Mail Manager, as well as a link to the Amazon SES blog post published on May 22, 2024: “Mail Manager – Amazon SES introduces new email routing […]
Amazon SES – Set up notifications for bounces and complaints
Why is it important to monitor bounces and complaints when using Amazon Simple Email Service? Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a scalable cloud email service provider that is cost-effective and flexible. Amazon SES allows businesses and individuals to send bulk emails to their customers and subscribers. However, as with any email service, there […]