AWS Messaging & Targeting Blog

After the recent announcement of changes with Mandrill, we have received many questions from Mandrill customers who are looking at options for email service providers. Moving to a new platform can be daunting. If you want to understand what SES is and what it can do for you, check out our product detail page and […]

When we set out to build an email receiving service for AWS, we wanted to make receiving email easy, but we also wanted to empower you to make your own decisions about how your inbound emails should be handled. With the goal of striking a balance between ease of use and flexibility, we integrated SES […]

If you are an Amazon SES customer, you probably know that in addition to managing your email campaigns, you need to be mindful of your reputation as an email sender. Maintaining a good reputation as a sender is vital if you rely on email delivery as part of your business – if you have a […]

The Amazon SES team is pleased to announce that you can now use SES to receive email! For the past four years, SES has strived to make your life easier by maintaining a fleet of SMTP servers ready to send mail when you want it. There’s no need to worry about scaling, ensuring message delivery, […]

The Amazon SES team is excited to announce the release of sending authorization! This feature allows users to grant permission to use their email addresses or domains to other accounts or IAM users. Note that for simplicity, we’ll be referring to email addresses and domains collectively as “identities” and the accounts and IAM users receiving […]

Hi SES Senders, We on the SES team strive to make things easier for our customers. As such, we’ve recently streamlined SES’s limit increase request process. Instead of having separate Support Center forms for Production Access and Sending Limit increases, we now have one form that serves both purposes. Our motivation behind the change was […]

Introduction Amazon SES and most of the other AWS services have SDKs for languages like Java, .NET, PHP, Python, and Ruby. Most SDKs are just wrappers around the HTTP APIs that the services provide. If your favorite language isn’t supported by an AWS SDK, you can write your own client or use third-party APIs to […]

Update (3/14/16): To increase your SPF authentication options, Amazon SES now enables you to use your own MAIL FROM domain. For more information, see Authenticating Email with SPF in Amazon SES. One of the most important aspects of email communication today is making sure the right person sent you the right message. There are several […]

Hello SES senders!  We have talked a number of times about how high bounce rates indicate a need to improve sending practices.  A high bounce rate can be a sign that someone is sending mail to lists that they have bought or rented, or that they aren’t maintaining their own lists, or a number of other problems.  As such, SES takes high […]

The Amazon SES team is excited to announce the release of delivery notifications. This feature allows you to receive an SNS notification each time SES successfully delivers one of your emails to a recipient’s mail server. The notifications contain delivery information that provides increased transparency into the status of email sent with SES. What are […]