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Today, Amazon Pinpoint added a new voice channel. This new channel enables you to deliver voice messages to your customers over the phone. When you use the voice channel, you provide a text script, and, optionally, instructions for converting that text to speech. Amazon Pinpoint converts your script into lifelike speech and then calls your […]

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, […]

Edited June 18, 2018: Since we first posted this blog post, we’ve changed the name of this feature to Phone Number Validate. Additionally, this feature was initially only available as a preview for customers who completed an application process. As of today, Phone Number Validate is available to all Amazon Pinpoint customers. SMS messaging is […]

Amazon SES now adds DMARC verdicts to incoming emails, and publishes aggregate DMARC reports to domain owners. These two new features will help combat email spoofing and phishing, making the email ecosystem a safer and more secure place. What is DMARC? DMARC stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance. The DMARC standard was designed […]

(Edited April 27, 2018)—Added a recommendation to set up publishing of Rendering Failure events. (Edited October 11, 2017)—Corrected the structure of the template JSON file and the maximum template file size. The Amazon SES team is excited to announce our latest update, which includes two related features that help you send personalized emails to large […]

The Amazon SES team is pleased to announce the addition of a reputation dashboard to the Amazon SES console. This new feature helps you track issues that could impact the sender reputation of your Amazon SES account. What information does the reputation dashboard provide? Amazon SES users must maintain bounce and complaint rates below a […]

The Amazon SES team is pleased to announce that you can now create groups of dedicated IP addresses, called dedicated IP pools, for your email sending activities. Prior to the availability of this feature, if you leased several dedicated IP addresses to use with Amazon SES, there was no way to specify which dedicated IP address […]

The following guest post was written by Tom Evans, COO of EmailOctopus. Our product, EmailOctopus, grew from a personal need. We were working on another business venture, and as our email subscriber base grew, the costs of using the larger email service providers became prohibitively expensive for an early-stage startup. At this point we were […]

Edited November, 2017: Since this article was published, we have made some changes that impact the dedicated IP address feature. The article suggests that you can send up to 50,000 emails from an IP address per day. This limitation has since been removed. Your actual sending limit is determined by your use case and your […]

Edited September, 2017: Since this article was published, we have made several changes that impact the dedicated IP address feature: This post states that the only way to use both dedicated IP addresses and shared IP addresses is to create two separate AWS accounts. This statement is no longer true; you can now use dedicated […]