Amazon Simple Email Service Documentation
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is an email service with IP deployment and email authentication options.
Sender Configuration Options
Amazon SES offers several methods of sending email, including the Amazon SES console, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) interface, and the Amazon SES API.
Inbox Deliverability
Amazon SES offers deliverability features through Virtual Deliverability Manager (VDM), designed to help provide insights into the performance of senders’ emails, make recommendations on how to improve deliverability, and implement email deliverability improvements for senders.
Insights dashboard
SES’s deliverability insights is designed to help email senders understand their deliverability performance. View at-a-glance reports on sending and delivery data in an interface in the SES console.
Configuration recommendations
SES is designed to notify senders of deliverability issues and provide actionable recommendations to help improve email deliverability.
Implementation
SES enables Senders to implement deliverability updates. Once SES detects an opportunity for improvement, the system is designed to implement the change without the need for monitoring or manual adjustment.
Global Endpoints
Global Endpoints by Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) lets customers add a secondary Region to their original configuration, streamlines the duplication of configuration values between the two Regions, and then allows for routing outbound traffic between the chosen primary and secondary Regions. If either Region suffers an impairment, the traffic shifts away from the impacted Region to the other one. Once the outage is restored, traffic returns. Once the customer has configured Global Endpoints and started sending, both chosen Regions are designed to develop warmed-up IPs in parallel, meaning that both Regions are prepared to support the customer workload.
Mail Manager
Mail Manager by Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) provides tools that help simplify managing large volumes of email communications within an organization.
Sender Identity Management and Security
Amazon SES supports authentication mechanisms including Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM), Sender Policy Framework (SPF), and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC).
Amazon SES is also designed to enable customers to connect an Amazon SES SMTP endpoint to a virtual private cloud (VPC) through a VPC endpoint powered by AWS PrivateLink.
Reputation Dashboard
The Amazon SES console includes a reputation dashboard that can help track issues that could impact the delivery of your emails. This dashboard is designed to track the overall bounce and feedback loops for your account, and can help inform you when other deliverability-impacting events occur.
Amazon SES is designed to publish the bounce and complaint metrics from this dashboard to Amazon CloudWatch. You can use CloudWatch to create alarms that notify you when your bounce or complaint rates reach certain thresholds.
Email Receiving
When you use Amazon SES to receive incoming emails, you can choose which emails you accept, and what to do with them after you receive them using receipt rules and IP address filters.
Mailbox Simulator
The Amazon SES mailbox simulator is designed to help test how your application handles certain scenarios, such as bounces or complaints, without impacting your sender reputation. You can use the mailbox simulator to simulate successful deliveries, hard bounces, out-of-office responses or feedback.
Additional Information
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