AWS Messaging & Targeting Blog

Note: AWS End User Messaging is the new name for Amazon Pinpoint. Learn more about MMS with AWS End User Messaging here. In our digital age, communication has evolved far beyond simple SMS, short for Simple Message Service. The rise of multimedia messaging has transformed the way we share information, express ourselves, and stay connected. […]

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 […]

Amazon Pinpoint offers marketers and developers the ability to send SMS to over 240 countries and/or regions around the world; giving users the global reach, scalability, cost effective pricing, and high deliverability that is required to build a successful SMS program. SMS is a flexible communication channel that facilitates different business requirements, including One-Time Password […]

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 […]

Amazon Pinpoint enables you to send text messages (SMS) to recipients in over 240 regions and countries around the world. Pinpoint supports all types of origination identities including long codes, 10DLC (US only), toll-free (US only), short codes, and sender IDs. NOTE: Certain subtypes of Origination Identities (OIDs), such as Free to End User (FTEU) […]

Amazon SES: Email marketing has a potential ROI of $42 for every dollar spent (source link) making it a great tool for businesses whether it is for marketing campaigns, transactional notifications, or other communications. Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cloud email service provider that can integrate into any application for bulk email […]

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 […]

In the vast landscape of digital communication, reaching your audience effectively is key to building successful customer relationships. Amazon Pinpoint – Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) flexible, user-focused messaging and targeting solution goes beyond mere messaging; it allows businesses to engage customers through email, SMS, push notifications, and more. What sets Amazon Pinpoint apart is its […]

In this post, we will walk through using AWS Services, such as, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight to monitor Amazon SES email sending events with the granularity and level of detail required to get insights from your customers engage with the emails you send. Nowadays, email Marketers rely on internal applications to […]

Gmail and Yahoo have announced new requirements for bulk senders that take effect in February 2024. The requirements aim to reduce delivery of malicious or unwanted email to the users of these mailbox providers. We recommend that Amazon SES senders who operate outside of the SES sandbox assume these bulk sender requirements apply to them. […]