Amazon Simple Email Service
Send transactional, marketing, and bulk email at scale directly from your applications with pay-as-you-go pricing.
What is Amazon SES?
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) s a fully managed, cloud-based email sending and receiving service that integrates into any application through an API or SMTP interface. It supports high-volume transactional, marketing, and newsletter email for developers and businesses, with dedicated, shared, or owned IP address options and pay-for-what-you-use pricing.
How much does Amazon SES cost?
Try Amazon SES for free
New AWS customers receive up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits, which can be applied towards eligible AWS services, including Amazon SES. The free plan is available for 6 months after account creation.
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Pay-as-you-go
You pay only for the email you send, with no minimum fees or upfront commitments.
What problems does Amazon SES solve?
Poor inbox placement and deliverability
Complex email infrastructure setup
Sending email from inside applications
Limited visibility into email performance
How does Amazon SES work?
1. Verify your sending domain or email address
Verify in the SES conole. SES then confirms your identity so you can send authenticated email.
2. Connect your application
Connect through the SES API or SMTP interface. SES accepts email from your code without separate mail server infrastructure.
3. Choose a dedicated, shared, or owned IP configuration
SES routes your email based on the deployment you select.
4. Send email and monitor results
With deliverability and sender statistics tools, SES reports on placement so you can improve performance over time.
What are the top Amazon SES use cases?
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Frequently asked questions
Amazon SES is best for developers and businesses that need to send high-volume transactional, marketing, or newsletter email from their applications. It suits teams that want reliable delivery, flexible IP options, and pay-as-you-go pricing without building or maintaining their own email servers.
Amazon SES delivers proven scale of more than a trillion emails per year, flexible dedicated, shared, or owned IP deployment, and built-in deliverability tooling. You pay only for what you send, with reporting on sender statistics and integrated inbound and outbound email management.
Amazon SES improves deliverability with Virtual Deliverability Manager and IP management tools that help you send as a trusted sender. These features surface inbox placement insights and let you manage sender reputation so more of your email reaches customer inboxes.
You can send transactional email such as purchase and shipping notifications, marketing email including campaigns and promotional offers, and newsletters. Amazon SES integrates into any application through an API or SMTP interface to send both transactional and promotional messages at scale.
Yes. Amazon SES receives incoming email and includes Mail Manager, which lets you protect and automate inbound email while applying security and compliance controls. This gives you a single service for both sending and receiving email at scale.
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