AWS SES

Overview

• Managed Email Service Provider
• Supports email templating
• Dedicated IPs
  • SES performs warm-up
  • Pooling available (e.g. marketing vs transactional)
• Supports receiving emails

Event tracking

• Events: send, delivery, open, click , bounce, rejections, etc.
• Delivered via
  • SNS
  • CloudWatch Logs

Email Authentication

• SPF, DKIM

Sender validation

• Identity
  • Email address
  • Domain
• Validation 
  • Required for each email address usage in: From," "Source," "Sender," or "Return-Path"
• Email address validation
  • Overrides domain validation settings (e.g. DKIM)
  • Verification email sent by SES
    • Whitelabel (custom branding) available
• Domain validation
  • Custom TXT record (not DKIM)

SMTP interface

• Requires credentials
• Public endpoint 

Quota

• Restricted sandbox environment