To send marketing, notification, and transactional emails.
Benefits
Optimize your deliverability
Integrate quickly
Scale securely
Send messages efficiently
Use cases
Transactional emails
Marketing emails
Bulk email communication
Trivia
SES collects open & click metrics for 60 days after each email is sent.
You can send up to 200 emails/day in sandbox mode.
Concepts
Email delivery metric: statistics provided by SES about how successfully emails are deliveried
Send rate
Delivery rate
Bounce rate
Complaint rate
Open rate
Click rate
Dedicated IP address: an address on the internet that only you use for sending your emails. If not, your emails will be send from Amazon's return address by default.
SES Sandbox: practice area for new users to test sending emails before using SES for real.
