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Amazon SES

Scalable, low-cost transactional and marketing email.

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Overview

Simple Email Service sends/receives email with deliverability tools, DKIM, configuration sets and event publishing.

When to use it

  • App transactional email (verification, receipts)
  • Bulk notifications
  • Inbound email processing

Setup

  1. Verify your domain (DKIM + SPF DNS records).
  2. Request production access (sandbox limits to verified recipients).
  3. Create a configuration set and event destination (CloudWatch / Firehose).

How to use

Send
aws ses send-email --from qa@x.com --to t@x.com --subject 'hi' --text 'body'

QA use cases

  • Verify password-reset flow by routing SES inbound → S3 → Lambda → assert email content in tests.