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How to send your first email on SES
Introduction Sending your first email on any service can be complicated. In this blog we will walk you through how to send your first email on Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) through the SES Console and to direct you to examples of how you can send email through the AWS SDK. Our public documentation includes […]
How to send messages to multiple recipients with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Introduction Customers frequently ask what is the best way to send messages to multiple recipients using Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) with the best deliverability and without exceeding the maximum recipient’s per message limit. In this blog, we will show you how to determine the best approach for sending a message to multiple recipients based […]
A Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Email Database
Introduction In the digital age, email remains a powerful tool for businesses to communicate with their customers. Whether it’s for marketing campaigns, customer service updates, or important announcements, a well-maintained email database is crucial for ensuring that your messages reach their intended recipients. However, managing an email database is not just about storing email addresses. […]
Increase your email engagement using AMP.
This blog introduces the use of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). It provides you a guide on how to configure AMP, a ready AMP email template and a working code example that uses Amazon SES API to send the AMP email. AMP emails support components that recipients can interact without […]
How to test email sending and monitoring
Introduction When setting up your email sending infrastructure and connections to APIs it is necessary to ensure proper setup. It is also important to ensure that after making changes to your sending pipeline that you verify that your application is working as expected. Not only is it important to test your sending processes, but it’s […]
What is BIMI and how to use it with Amazon SES
Introduction In this blog post I’d like to walk you through how to implement BIMI while using Amazon SES. For your information BIMI can be best described by the following excerpt from bimigroup.org: Brand Indicators for Message Identification or BIMI (pronounced: Bih-mee) is an emerging email specification that enables the use of brand-controlled logos within […]
Tracking email engagement with AWS Analytics services
Update: July 26, 2023 – This blog has now a script to automate its deployment. You can find it in this Github repository. Email at scale is one of the most valuable forms of reaching and engaging with customers, but creating the most engaging email content means frequent tracking, monitoring, and analyzing bounces, complaints, opens, […]
Deliverability Sessions: Managing Large Volume Spikes in Email
Introduction: In an ideal world of email deliverability, email is sent on a regular cadence to a normalized lists of subscribers and recipient email addresses with no major changes in pattern. Typically the volume, list members and content are relatively the same and mailbox providers (such as Gmail) begin to expect that schedule and those […]
Amazon Simple Email Service Celebrates 50 Years of Email
Email as we know it turns 50 years old this month (October 2021). The first email sent over a network — the beginning of email as we use it today — was sent in October 1971, by MIT graduate Ray Tomlinson (April 23, 1941–March 5, 2016). Tomlinson was the first to use the @ symbol […]
Forwarding emails automatically based on content with Amazon Simple Email Service
Introduction Email is one of the most popular channels consumers use to interact with support organizations. In its most basic form, consumers will send their email to a catch-all email address where it is further dispatched to the correct support group. Often, this requires a person to inspect content manually. Some IT organizations even have […]