Amazon Simple Email Service
Optimize your email communication with reliable, scalable, and secure solutions that ensure compliance and efficiency at competitive prices
What is Amazon SES?
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cloud-based email service provider that can integrate into any application for high-volume email automation. Whether you use an email software to send transactional emails, marketing emails, or newsletter emails, you pay only for what you use. Amazon SES is an email tool that also supports a variety of deployments including dedicated, shared, or owned IP addresses. Reports on sender statistics and email deliverability tools help businesses make every email count.
Pricing
Try SES for free
New AWS customers will receive up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits, which can be applied towards eligible AWS services, including Amazon SES. Use credits toward outbound emails, inbound emails, and Virtual Deliverability Manager outbound email processing.
Learn more about SES on the Free Tier
Pay-as-you-go pricing
With Amazon SES, you pay only for what you use with no minimum fees or mandatory service usage. You are billed separately for sending and receiving emails, data usage, and additional features. Amazon SES provides billing transparency and low prices because you only pay for the features you use.
Benefits
Send high-volume email
Deliver high-volume email campaigns and manage incoming emails at scale with the service that transacts more than a trillion email each year for customers like Netflix, Duolingo, and Amazon Retail.
Increase email deliverability
Reach more customers’ inboxes as a trusted sender with email deliverability tools and IP management.
Simplify email management
Simplify your complex email setup with Mail Manager, allowing you to protect and automate your incoming emails and send emails with security and compliance control.
Features
Configure sender options
Amazon SES offers several methods of sending email, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol interface, and the Amazon SES API. You can access the API using the AWS Command Line Interface. or by using an AWS Software Development Kit.
Automatically improve email deliverability
Once SES detects an opportunity for improvement, the system will implement the change without the need for monitoring or manual adjustment.
Global endpoints
Provides multi-region resilience for bulk senders by allowing customers to add a secondary Region to their original configuration, streamlining the duplication of configuration values between the two Regions.
Use cases
Automate transactional messages
Keep your customers up to date by sending automated emails, such as purchase or shipping notifications, order status updates, and policy change notices.
Globally deliver marketing emails
Create and send targeted marketing campaigns, newsletters, promotional offers, and engaging content to customers globally.
Send email from within any application
Deliver messages—including transactional and promotional— by configuring Amazon SES within your business's applications.
Case studies
See how customers use SES to transform business processes
Resources
Documentation
Access comprehensive guides and detailed instructions to integrate Amazon SES.
API reference
Provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols for Amazon SES.
What's new
Check out the latest with Amazon SES.
Amazon SES Mail Manager adds new features for enhanced security and email processing
Amazon SES Mail Manager now offers enhancements to email security and processing while simplifying email infrastructure migrations.
Amazon SES adds VPC support for API endpoints
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) added support for accessing SES API endpoints through Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints.
Amazon SES announces email validation
Amazon SES announces email validation, a new capability that helps customers reduce bounce rates and protect sender reputation by validating email addresses before sending. Customers can validate individual addresses via API calls or enable automatic validation across all outbound emails.
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Get started with Amazon SESFAQs
Amazon SES offers many email tools including: email sender configuration options, email deliverability tools, flexible email deployment options, sender and identity management, email security, email sending statistics, email reputation dashboard, and inbound email services.
The Amazon SES sandbox is an area where new users can test the capabilities of Amazon SES. When your account is in the sandbox, you can only send email to verified identities. A verified identity is an email addresses or domain that you've proven that you own.
Additionally, when your account is in the sandbox, there are limits to the volume of email you can send each day, and to the number of messages you can send each second.
When you're ready to start sending email to non-verified recipients, submit an Amazon SES Sending Limit Increase request through the AWS Support Center. For more information, see Moving Out of the Amazon SES Sandbox in the Amazon SES Developer Guide.
SES offers a suite of email deliverability tools called Virtual Deliverability Manager. With Virtual Deliverability Manager, email senders are able to track their email deliverability through deliverability insights and improve email inbox placement through Virtual Deliverability Manager's deliverability recommendations. Email senders can also enable Virtual Deliverability Manager to automatically implement recommendations that instantly improve their email deliverability.
See our full list of FAQs here.
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