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What is Amazon Simple Email Service?
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Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a highly scalable and cost-effective platform for sending and receiving email. Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email solution.
Who can use Amazon SES?
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Amazon SES is a great solution for anyone who needs a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive way to send or receive email. Our current users include a diverse range of organizations, such as online retailers, application developers large and small, and digital marketing organizations.
Are there limits as to whom I can send emails to?
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In general, you should only send email to recipients who want and expect it. AWS reserves the right to suspend any account identified as sending spam or other unwanted low-quality email, or take other action as AWS deems appropriate.
As an Amazon SES customer, you are responsible for complying with the various laws and regulations that govern the transmission of email messages. These laws and regulations vary from country to country, and can even vary between states, provinces, counties, or other administrative divisions. In order to use Amazon SES, you must agree to the terms specified in the AWS Customer Agreement and the AWS Acceptable Use Policy.
What kinds of email can I send using Amazon SES?
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Amazon SES can reliably deliver merchandising, subscription, transactional, and notification email messages.
How can I get started using Amazon SES?
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Complete the following steps, and you’ll be on your way to sending email using Amazon SES:
Sign up: After signing up for AWS, you can access the Amazon SES sandbox–an environment specifically designed for developers to test and evaluate the service.
Verify domains or email addresses: Before you can send an email using Amazon SES, you need to verify that you own the domain or address from which you will send email. To start the verification process, visit the Amazon SES console.
Send a test email: You can use the Amazon SES console, SMTP interface, or API to send a test email to an email address or domain that you verified.
Apply to increase your sending limits: When you are ready to use Amazon SES to send production email, you can apply to increase your sending limits and move your account out of the sandbox environment. It only takes a few minutes to apply, and you will typically receive a response within 24 hours.
Send production email: You can use either SMTP or the Amazon SES API to queue email messages for delivery.
Get feedback: Amazon SES provides useful statistics about your sending activities. With a simple API query or Amazon SES console visit, you can quickly obtain vital statistics such as volume sent, bounces and complaints.
For more information about how to set up email with Amazon SES, see the Quick Start section of the Amazon SES Developer Guide.
