{"id":3960,"date":"2022-04-15T04:53:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T08:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2023-04-12T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T10:15:09","slug":"amazon-ses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/2022\/04\/15\/amazon-ses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Complete Amazon SES Guide You&#8217;ll Ever Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Amazon SES<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a new service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that aims to facilitate the delivery of email marketing, alerts, and transactions at scale for digital marketers and application developers.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;ll go through how Amazon SES stands out from hundreds of other email providers, analyze its merits and disadvantages, and show you how to set it up in this article.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Amazon SES?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Amazon Web Services, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective, flexible, and easily scalable email service that allows developers to send email from within any application.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3962\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3962\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3962\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Amazon-SES-is-a-cloud-based-email-service-that-can-facilitate-your-email-marketing.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon SES is a cloud-based email service that can facilitate your email marketing\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon SES is a cloud-based email service that can facilitate your email marketing<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a cloud-based service designed for business communication, email campaigns, or any other activities that involve sending bulk emails internally or externally. It provides a place for high-volume email automation at a reasonable cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Amazon SES Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SES provides a comprehensive set of features for a reliable email system, including<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>High deliverability<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SES invests much in whitelisting as it supports three authentication mechanisms, including <\/span><b>DKIM, SPF, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>DMARC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to ensure the emails reach the right recipients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The service filters content to verify that emails meet <\/span><b>Internet Service Provider (ISP)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> standards and mark content that fails to do so for correction. In addition, it blocks malware and viruses, and notify the sender if emails are flagged as spam to protect the emails from any possible threats.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Monitoring your sending activity using events, metrics, and statistics<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To measure and monitor your activity using SES, you need to identify the types of email events related to your sending activity. You can select from the list below:<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-style: solid; background-color: #e2f4e8;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Sends<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Rendering Failures<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Rejects<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Deliveries\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Hard bounces<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Complaints<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Delivery Delays<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Subscriptions\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Opens<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, the reputation dashboard displays the information which advises you of factors that might damage your sender reputation:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Account status<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 A summary of the combined health of your bounce and complaint rates:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Bounce Rate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 The percentage of emails delivered from your account that led to a hard bounce.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Complaint Rate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 The percentage of emails delivered from your account that resulted in recipients marking them as spam.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"border-style: solid; background-color: #e2f4e8;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b><i>Note<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The reputation dashboard doesn&#8217;t notify you when the bounce or complaint rate reaches a certain threshold. To get notifications for a bounce or complaint rate threshold, you can set up an <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/ses\/latest\/dg\/reputationdashboard-cloudwatch-alarm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon CloudWatch alarm<\/span><\/i><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with an <\/span><\/i><b><i>Amazon<\/i><\/b> <b><i>Simple Notification Service<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Amazon SNS) topic.<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><b>Diverse configuration options<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You cannot send emails directly on Amazon, so you need to use 1 email sending software which is connected to Amazon. Therefore, Amazon SES provides a list of possible options: the <\/span><b>AWS SES console<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)<\/b> <b>interface<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Amazon SES API<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Integrations<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is easy and simple to integrate Amazon SES with several platforms as long as your app is hosted on AWS. In addition, you can integrate it with <\/span><b>Jira, Thunderbird, Postfix, Exim<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Email receiving<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the email receiver, Amazon SES allows you to communicate with other mail servers, scan for spam and viruses, and accept or reject mail based on the email address, IP address, or domain of the sender. You can also retrieve the emails that you have sent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Amazon SES Pricing<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3><b>AWS Free Usage Tier<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your application is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">running on<\/span> <b>Amazon EC2 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/?ec2-whats-new.sort-by=item.additionalFields.postDateTime&amp;ec2-whats-new.sort-order=desc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\"><b>(Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud)<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or via <\/span><b>AWS Lambda,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you are eligible for a free tier that allows you to send the first 62,000 messages and receive <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the first 1,000 emails <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">per month at no charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, you should bear in mind that<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">there is no free allowance for you when using an email client to send the emails!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Free Usage Tier benefit does not expire; however, you will have to pay for the emails you send or <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">receive <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and each GB of attachments after you reach the limit.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3971\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3971\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3971\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/You-will-pay-additional-charges-when-you-exceed-the-limits-for-AWS-Free-users.jpg\" alt=\"You will have to pay additional charges when you exceed the limits for AWS Free users.\" width=\"800\" height=\"172\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will have to pay additional charges when you exceed the limits for AWS Free users.<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<h3><b>Pricing details<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your application is not hosted on Amazon\u2019s server, you will start paying from the first message sent. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SES offers an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/calculator.aws\/#\/createCalculator\/SES\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS pricing calculator<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to customize quotes depending on your needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3968\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3968\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3968\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-detailed-list-of-which-you-will-pay-based-on-your-personal-needs.jpg\" alt=\"This is the detailed list of which you will pay based on your personal needs\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the detailed list of which you will pay based on your personal needs<\/p><\/div>\n<h4><b>Email messages<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You pay $0.10 for every 1,000 emails you send or receive. When you send a single message to several recipients, you pay for each recipient.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, you pay for an incoming message when it is addressed to at least one email address that matches an address in an active receipt rule. Specifically, a receipt rule defines what Amazon SES should do when it gets an email from a certain recipient (or set of recipients).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Outgoing data charges<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You pay $0.12 per gigabyte (GB) of data in the messages you send. Headers, message content (including text and graphics), and attachments are all part of this data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The AWS Free Usage Tier does not cover outgoing data charges. Outgoing data costs apply whether you send emails from both EC2 applications and non-EC2 applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Incoming mail chunks<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An incoming mail chunk contains 256 kilobytes (KB) of incoming data, including headers, message content (text and images), and attachments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You pay $0.09 for 1,000 incoming mail chunks when you choose Amazon SES as your email receiver. The service only counts complete incoming message chunks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Fees for using other AWS Services<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may pay monthly fees for using other AWS Services based on how you set up and use Amazon SES, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compute usage costs and transfer fees for the data you send out of Amazon EC2 where your application is hosted<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transfer fees of incoming messages to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, based on the amount of data you store<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fees for using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), based on the number of notifications you receive<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monthly fees based on the number of custom metrics and dashboards in Amazon CloudWatch you create<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_3967\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3967\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3967\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/some-types-of-fees-you-may-be-charged-when-using-other-AWS-services.jpg\" alt=\"Be aware of some types of fees you may be charged when using other AWS Services\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Be aware of some types of fees you may be charged when using other AWS Services<\/p><\/div>\n<h4><b>Additional services<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are extra costs when you add additional services to your AWS SES package.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Dedicated IP address:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You can lease a dedicated IP address to manage your own IP reputation at the cost of $24.95 per month for each IP address.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Bring your own IP address:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This feature lets you use your own IP address with the additional cost of $24.95 per month for each of your IP addresses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Deliverability dashboard<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It charges $1,250\/ a month and offers the ability to monitor reputation for up to five domains and 25 predictive email placement tests.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Use cases of Amazon SES<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 3 main cases where we recommend you to use this service in order to optimize costs and increase efficiency for email delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3969\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3969\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3969\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Use-cases-of-Amazon-SES.jpg\" alt=\"Using Amazon SES in these situations can help with email delivery optimization\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using Amazon SES in these situations can help with email delivery optimization<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><b>List of the Pros and Cons of the Amazon SES service<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS SES service can be a great choice for your business, it may not be ideal for other companies in some aspects. Take a look at the benefits and downsides when utilizing AWS SES.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Pros<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Cost savings<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, there are various email service providers but Amazon SES offers a significantly lower email delivery charge. Since the service uses a<\/span><b> \u201cpay as you go\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> method, you only pay for the emails you send, which gives it a competitive advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Quick integration\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can configure your email sending in a blink of an eye when using either the Amazon SES console, APIs, or SMTP. Amazon SES also supports email receiving, allowing you to interact with your customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Optimization of your deliverability<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can use account performance statistics and anti-spam feedback from the reputation dashboard to improve your deliverability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, Amazon SES works with industry experts like M3AAWG to optimize delivery to your customers by implementing industry best practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Sending emails effectively<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you use free email addresses such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail\u2026 to send bulk emails, there is a maximum limit of 500 emails sent per day that you should notice. Otherwise, with Amazon SES, you can send 1 million emails per day, which is 2,000 times more than Gmail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3961\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3961\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3961\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Amazon-SES-allows-you-to-send-more-emails-in-bulk-than-other-service.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon SES allows you to send more emails in bulk than other services\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon SES allows you to send more emails in bulk than other services<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not to mention, if you send sales emails via your personal Gmail account, you will face the risk of being locked out of your account. Moreover, emails sent via the SES service will be authenticated by <\/span><b>amazonses.com<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, making your mail much more trustworthy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Scaling securely<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SES proves to be a highly secure and well-monitored service since it is globally available, HIPAA qualified, regionally compliant (C5, IRAP), and globally certified (Fed-Ramp, ISO, GDPR).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Sender Policy Framework (SPF)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">authentication options in Amazon SES confirm your domain&#8217;s sending permissions. Furthermore, the service provides <\/span><b>Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for secure email delivery from any application.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Cons<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><i>Complicated initial configuration:<\/i><\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SES has a complicated initial process, resulting in<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> initial limitations before you get approved and verify your sending domains.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><i>Lack of Templates:<\/i><\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lack of template <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">builders <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and step-by-step demonstrations makes it hard for non-web developers to set it up or <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">send responsive emails.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><i>Lack of A\/B Testing: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SES service does not offer A\/B testing &#8211; a method of website optimization while other mass email services do.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><i>Lack of email list storage:<\/i><\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SES doesn\u2019t provide you with email list storage.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><i>No App Available:<\/i><\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately<\/span><b>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this service is only available through desktops.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Create and set up your Amazon SES account<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this part, we will show you the guide to create and fully set up your Amazon SES account so that you can be well-prepared to launch your large-scale email campaigns.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Step 1: Sign up for an AWS account<\/b><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_3964\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3964\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3964\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Creating-your-Amazon-SES-account-is-simple.jpg\" alt=\"Creating your Amazon SES account is simple\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Creating your Amazon SES account is simple<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navigate to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ses<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from your browser.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the orange <\/span><b>Get started with Amazon Simple Email Service<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> button.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Complete the 5-step signup process.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After creating your account, you can log into the<\/span><b> Management Console<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the <\/span><b>Amazon AWS console<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, go to <\/span><b>All services \u2192 Business Applications \u2192 Amazon Simple Email Services<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to access the SES console in order to set up your SES account.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Step 2: Verify the email address<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before being able to send an email through Amazon SES from your email address; you must verify your email address.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sign in to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/console.aws.amazon.com\/ses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/console.aws.amazon.com\/ses\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select the <\/span><b>AWS Region<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where you want to verify your email address.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choose <\/span><b>Configuration <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from the sidebar <\/span><b>\u2192 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select<\/span><b> Verified identities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click on <\/span><b>Create identity<\/b> <b>\u2192 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choose whether you want to verify \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a domain\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an individual email address\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_3970\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3970\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3970\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Verify-email-address-for-you-Amazon-SES-account.jpg\" alt=\"Choosing your Identity type to verify your email address.\u00a0\" width=\"800\" height=\"307\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Choosing your <strong>Identity type<\/strong> to verify your email address.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check your Amazon inbox for an email from the Amazon SES team to verify your email <\/span><b>\u2192 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the verification link in the email.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will see<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201c<\/span><\/i><b><i>verified<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under the <\/span><b>Status <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">column if you have successfully verified your email address in the <\/span><b>Verified identities <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">section<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Step 3: Authenticating your Amazon SES accounts<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have to wait for the Amazon SES team to authenticate your accounts. Until that, your emails are unable to reach the recipients.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the meantime, make sure you set up <\/span><b>SPF, DKIM<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>DMARC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in your Amazon SES account correctly for your accounts before starting to send emails out.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Step 4: Send test emails via Amazon SES<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon places all the new Amazon SES accounts into a test environment called the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandbox_(software_development)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sandbox<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. That may cause some limitations; however, it is necessary for you to test the system beforehand:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Head to the list of identities under<\/span><b> Verified Identities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>Configuration \u2192 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choose the email address that is verified to send a test email and select the<\/span><b> Send test email <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">button.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_3966\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3966\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3966\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Send-test-emails-via-Amazon-SES.jpg\" alt=\"Sending a test email is vital to check if the system works well\" width=\"800\" height=\"193\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sending a test email is vital to check if the system works well<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decide between the two formats \u2013 <\/span><b>Formatted (for simple messages)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><b>Raw (more complex emails that involve HTML scripts).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fill out the rest of the fields <\/span><b>\u2192 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click <\/span><b>Send<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check if the test was successful in your inbox<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Step 5: Get out of the Amazon SES sandbox<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When your new account is in the sandbox environment, you can only send emails to and from verified email addresses and domains. Besides, you are not able to send more than 1 email per second and are restricted to 200 emails sent a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, you can request to move out of the Amazon SES sandbox and have those restrictions removed. Here\u2019s how to do it:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/console.aws.amazon.com\/ses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SES console<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> site<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, click on the <\/span><b>Account dashboard<\/b> <b>\u2192 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select <\/span><b>Request a limit increase<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>Sending limits section.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_3965\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3965\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3965\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Get-out-of-the-Amazon-SES-sandbox.jpg\" alt=\"You can ask Amazon SES to remove you from the sandbox by requesting a limit increase\" width=\"800\" height=\"294\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can ask Amazon SES to remove you from the sandbox by requesting a limit increase<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Complete the form with your account details<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The AWS Support Team will review your application carefully and respond to you<\/span><b> within 24 hours<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a confirmation or a request for further information, if necessary.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After you have gone through these steps, it\u2019s time to start using your new account.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Bottom Line<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SES is a reliable and first-rate service for boosting lead generation and conversion rates. 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