Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Concept

With Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), an app can send and receive very large amounts of email. The app hands email to SES through an API or SMTP, and SES delivers it to the receiver. Before sending, you have to verify your own domain or email address, and authentication such as DKIM makes the email trustworthy. News about bounces (returned email) and complaints can be received through SNS or EventBridge. Incoming email can be stored in S3 or sent to Lambda, according to rules.

Simple example

A big post office — you can send a thousand letters at once, and it keeps a record of which ones did not arrive.

Why it’s needed

If you run your own email server, email often ends up in spam, and sending in large amounts is hard.

Where it’s used

Sign-up confirmations, password resets, order receipts and newsletters.

Azure equivalent

Azure Communication Services Email

Remember

SES = the email post office for apps.

Learn more

For details and the latest information, see the official documentation:

• Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) — AWS official documentation ↗