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Leverage IAM Roles for email sending via SES from EC2 and eliminate a common credential risk

Sending automated transactional emails, such as account verifications and password resets, is a common requirement for web applications hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon SES provides multiple interfaces for sending emails, including SMTP, API, and the SES console itself. The type of SES credential you use with Amazon SES depends on the method through which you are […]

Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 with Amazon SES

This post will help you configure Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 to send email through Amazon SES. The instructions apply if you are running SQL Server in Amazon EC2 or hosted elsewhere. This post assumes you are running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server Management Studio is installed. If you need installation […]