Simple Email Service (SES)

• SES is an email platform that provides an easy, cost-effective way for you to send and receive email using your own email addresses and domains.

• For example, you can send marketing emails such as special offers, transactional emails such as order confirmations, and other types of correspondence such as newsletters.

• When you use SES to receive mail, you can develop software solutions such as email autoresponders, email unsubscribe systems, and applications that generate customer support tickets from incoming emails.

• EC2 restricts email traffic over port 25 by default. To avoid timeouts when sending email through the SMTP endpoint from EC2, you can request that these restrictions be removed or use a non-default port.

SES Credentials

• To interact with SES, you use security credentials to verify who you are and whether you have permission to interact with SES.

• Use AWS access keys when you send an email using the SES API, and SMTP credentials when you send an email using the SES SMTP interface.