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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 […]

How to Grant Another SES Account or User Permission To Send Emails

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a bulk and transactional email sending service for businesses and developers. To send emails from a particular email address through SES, users have to verify ownership of the email address, the domain used by the email address, or a parent domain of the domain used by the email […]

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 […]

A Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Email Database

Introduction In the digital age, email remains a powerful tool for businesses to communicate with their customers. Whether it’s for marketing campaigns, customer service updates, or important announcements, a well-maintained email database is crucial for ensuring that your messages reach their intended recipients. However, managing an email database is not just about storing email addresses. […]

Increase your email engagement using AMP.

This blog introduces the use of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). It provides you a guide on how to configure AMP, a ready AMP email template and a working code example that uses Amazon SES API to send the AMP email. AMP emails support components that recipients can interact without […]

What is BIMI and how to use it with Amazon SES

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 […]

Tracking email engagement with AWS Analytics services

Update: July 26, 2023 – This blog has now a script to automate its deployment. You can find it in this Github repository. Email at scale is one of the most valuable forms of reaching and engaging with customers, but creating the most engaging email content means frequent tracking, monitoring, and analyzing bounces, complaints, opens, […]