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Build a Two-Way Email-to-SMS Service with Amazon SES and Amazon End User Messaging
Introduction Businesses and organizations today struggle to effectively communicate with their customers, employees, or other stakeholders across the diverse range of digital channels they now use. One common problem arises when the requirement to exchange information quickly and reliably extends beyond traditional email. This issue challenges organizations where recipients lack immediate access to email. This […]
Email Journaling with SES Mail Manager
Introduction to Journaling Email journaling is the practice of preserving comprehensive records of all email communications within an organization. This approach stems from the need to maintain rigid, compliance-driven retention policies focused on auditing an entire organization’s email activities. Because journaled email messages are often required to satisfy on-demand audit and investigation requests, they must […]
Optimizing Email Deliverability: A User-Centric Approach to List Management and Monitoring
This is a 2024 update of the 2015 blog post “Amazon SES Best Practices: Top 5 Best Practices for List Management“. While the fundamental principles of effective email list management remain relevant, the landscape has evolved significantly over the past nine years. This updated post aims to provide Amazon Simple Email Services (SES) customers with […]
Mail Manager – Amazon SES introduces new email routing and archiving features
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cloud-based email sending service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), handling both inbound and outbound email traffic for your applications. It allows users to send and receive email using SES’s reliable and cost-effective infrastructure without having to provision email servers yourself. Managing multiple email workloads at scale can […]
Serverless IoT email capture, attachment processing, and distribution
Many customers need to automate email notifications to a broad and diverse set of email recipients, sometimes from a sensor network with a variety of monitoring capabilities. Many sensor monitoring software products include an SMTP client to achieve this goal. However, managing email server infrastructure requires specialty expertise and operating an email server comes with […]
An Introduction to Amazon WorkMail Audit Logging
Important Update (10/31/2024) – Amazon WorkMail now supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) through integration with AWS IAM Identity Center! Please see the What’s New announcement and the Amazon WorkMail documentation for more information. Amazon WorkMail’s new audit logging capability equips email system administrators with powerful visibility into mailbox activities and system events across their organization. As […]
Upgrade Your Email Tech Stack with Amazon SESv2 API
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cloud-based email sending service that helps businesses and developers send marketing and transactional emails. We introduced the SESv1 API in 2011 to provide developers with basic email sending capabilities through Amazon SES using HTTPS. In 2020, we introduced the redesigned Amazon SESv2 API, with new and updated features […]
Amazon SES: Email Authentication and Getting Value out of Your DMARC Policy
Amazon SES: Email Authentication and Getting Value out of Your DMARC Policy Introduction For enterprises of all sizes, email is a critical piece of infrastructure that supports large volumes of communication. To enhance the security and trustworthiness of email communication, many organizations turn to email sending providers (ESPs) like Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES). […]
Handling Bounces and Complaints
As you may have seen in Jeff Barr’s blog post or in an announcement, Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now provides bounce and complaint notifications via Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). You can refer to the Amazon SES Developer Guide or Jeff’s post to learn how to set up this feature. In this […]
How to secure your email account and improve email sender reputation
How to secure your email account and improve email sender reputation Introduction Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service that enables customers to send email from within any application. You can send email using the SES SMTP interface or via HTTP requests to the SES API. All requests […]