Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Developer Guide

by Amazon Web Services

NOTE – A new version of the Amazon Simple Email Service Developer Guide is available at This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES). This developer guide provides you with an overview of Amazon SES and shows you how to set up the service, authenticate your email address, send email using the SMTP interface or the SES API, manage your email sending activity, troubleshoot, use the Query interface, and control user access using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Amazon SES is a highly scalable, bulk and transactional email-sending service that integrates with other AWS services to make it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at

566 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 12, 2013