> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://mamawhocode.gitbook.io/aws/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://mamawhocode.gitbook.io/aws/services/messaging/ses.md).

# SES

highly-scalable inbound/outbound email service

## Overview

* 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](#concepts) mode.

## Concepts

* [Email delivery metric](/aws/services/messaging/ses.md): 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](/aws/services/messaging/ses.md): 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](/aws/services/messaging/ses.md): practice area for new users to test sending emails before using SES for real.