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Background: Email deliverability is a critical aspect of email as it directly impacts the success of campaigns by ensuring that messages reach the intended recipients’ inboxes. It encompasses factors like avoiding spam filters, maximizing open rates, and minimizing bounces. Companies often encounter deliverability problems due to various reasons, such as poor sender reputation, inadequate list […]

SES’ New Dedicated IP (managed) Capabilities In the world of email, sending emails over dedicated IPs can provide a number of benefits, including greater control over reputation and the ability to manage email deliverability. However, the heavy lifting involved in setting up and managing a dedicated IP can be intimidating, especially for those who are […]

Starting to use dedicated IPs has always been a long, complicated process driven by factors such as the large effort to monitor and maintain the IPs and the costs, both in infrastructure and management of IP and Domain reputation. The Dedicated IP (Managed) feature in Amazon SES eliminates much of the complexity of sending email via […]

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 […]

As a sender, selecting the right domain for the visible From header of your outbound messages is crucial for optimal deliverability. In this blog post, we will guide you through the process of choosing the best domain to use with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Understanding domain selection and its impact on deliverability With SES, […]

What is email authentication and why is it important? Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) lets you reach customers confidently without an on-premises Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) system. Amazon SES provides built-in support for email authentication protocols, including DKIM, SPF, and DMARC, which help improve the deliverability and authenticity of outgoing emails. Email authentication is […]

Introduction In this blog post I’d like to walk you through how to implement BIMI while using Amazon SES. For your information BIMI can be best described by the following excerpt from bimigroup.org: Brand Indicators for Message Identification or BIMI (pronounced: Bih-mee) is an emerging email specification that enables the use of brand-controlled logos within […]

Note: The solution described below is outdated. WhatsApp is now available natively through AWS End User Messaging. Visit here to get started. How to add WhatsApp as an Amazon Pinpoint Custom Channel WhatsApp now reports over 2 billion users in 180 countries, making it a prime place for businesses to communicate with their customers. In […]

Note: The solution described below is outdated. WhatsApp is now available natively through AWS End User Messaging. Visit here to get started. In this blog you will deploy a solution that integrates Amazon Pinpoint with WhatsApp for outbound and inbound messages. Amazon Pinpoint is a multichannel customer engagement platform allowing you to engage with your […]

Introduction Amazon Pinpoint is widely used by many customers for their various user engagement use cases like marketing campaigns, scheduled communications (newsletters, reminders, etc.), and transactional messaging. By using the message template feature in Amazon Pinpoint, customers can design messages personalized to the specific end users, by using variable attributes. While Amazon Pinpoint enables customers […]