AWS for Developers: Simple Email Service (SES)

Learn how to use AWS Simple Email Service (SES), the cloud-based email delivery service, for a cost-effective and simple way to reliably send emails to your users.

Introduction

• Simple Email Service (SES) for sending cheap and reliable email
• Course organization

1. Set Up SES with the SMTP Interface

• Set up DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) for your domain
• What is DKIM and Sender Policy Framework (SPF)?
• How do I check my DNS records?
• Verify your email address with SES
• Send email through Amazon SES with SMTP

2. Send Email from WordPress Using SES

• How WordPress sends email
• Using WP Mail SMTP
• Send newsletters from WordPress with SES

3. Staying Off Probation with SES

• Track SES usage with CloudWatch
• Set up a probation warning alert
• SES bounce notifications with Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• Hard vs. soft bounces in SES
• Rejected and undelivered messages in SES
• Reduce bounces and complaints in SES
• Move out of the SES sandbox

4. Handling Bounces Automatically with SNS and Lambda

• Lambda functions to handle SES bounces
• Lambda for SES to a MySQL database

Conclusion

• Next steps