Features page (FAQ) — Amazon SES

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• Tools overview Report an error

  “Amazon SES offers many email tools including: email sender configuration options, email deliverability tools, flexible email deployment options, sender and identity management, email security, email sending statistics, email reputation dashboard, and inbound email services.”

• Sandbox Report an error

  “The Amazon SES sandbox is an area where new users can test the capabilities of Amazon SES. When your account is in the sandbox, you can only send email to verified identities.”

• Virtual deliverability manager Report an error

  “SES offers a suite of email deliverability tools called Virtual Deliverability Manager. With Virtual Deliverability Manager, email senders are able to track their email deliverability through deliverability insights and improve email inbox placement through Virtual Deliverability Manager's deliverability recommendations.”

• Free tier Report an error

  “Receive up to 3,000 message charges for free each month for the first 12 months after you start using SES.”

• Free tier credits 2025 Report an error

  “Starting July 15, 2025, new AWS customers will receive up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits, which can be applied towards eligible AWS services, including Amazon Simple Email Service.”

• Verified identity limit Report an error

  “In each AWS Region, you can verify up to 10,000 email addresses and domains, in any combination.”

• Max message size Report an error

  “Amazon SES v2 API and SMTP accepts email messages up to 40MB in size including any images and attachments that are part of the message.”

• Sending limits Report an error

  “Sending quota—the maximum number of recipients that you can send email to in a 24-hour period. Maximum send rate—the maximum number of recipients that you can send email per second.”

• Dkim Report an error

  “Yes, Amazon SES supports DKIM. If you have enabled and configured Easy DKIM, Amazon SES signs outgoing messages using DKIM on your behalf. If you prefer, you can also sign your email manually.”

• Dmarc Report an error

  “With Amazon SES, your emails can comply with DMARC through SPF, DKIM, or both.”

• Dedicated ip pools Report an error

  “If you lease several dedicated IP addresses to use with your Amazon SES account, you can use the dedicated IP pools feature to create groups (pools) of those IP addresses.”

• Smtp interface Report an error

  “Amazon SES provides an SMTP interface for seamless integration with applications that can send email via SMTP. You can connect directly to this SMTP interface from your applications, or configure your existing email server to use this interface as an SMTP relay.”

• Attachments Report an error

  “Amazon SES supports many popular content formats, including documents, images, audio, and video.”

• Attachment virus scanning Report an error

  “For your own safety and that of your customers, Amazon SES scans every attachment that you send for viruses and malware.”

• Mailbox simulator Report an error

  “You can use the Amazon SES mailbox simulator to test your sending rate and to test your ability to handle events such as bounces and complaints, without sending email to actual recipients.”

• Content filtering Report an error

  “Amazon SES uses content filtering technologies to scan outgoing email messages. These content filters help ensure that the content being sent through Amazon SES meets the standards of ISPs.”

• Delivery guarantee Report an error

  “However, neither Amazon SES nor any other email-sending service can guarantee delivery of every single email.”

• Feedback loop Report an error

  “Amazon SES provides a feedback loop that includes bounce, complaint, and delivery notifications.”

• Global suppression list Report an error

  “When a recipient's email address generates a hard bounce, Amazon SES adds that address to a global suppression list. If you try to send an email to an address that is on the global suppression list, the call to Amazon SES succeeds, but Amazon SES treats the email as a hard bounce instead of attempting to send it.”

• Des pricing Report an error

  “To learn about pricing for Deliverability Expert Services, open a ticket with AWS Support requesting a Deliverability Expert Services (DES) engagement.”

• S3 encryption kms Report an error

  “Amazon SES integrates with AWS Key Management Service (KMS), which provides the ability to encrypt the mail that it writes to your Amazon S3 bucket. Amazon SES uses client-side encryption to encrypt your mail before it sends the email to Amazon S3.”

• Tls Report an error

  “Amazon SES supports TLS 1.2 and above for TLS connections. By default, Amazon SES uses opportunistic TLS.”

• Inbound spam verdicts Report an error

  “Amazon SES makes its spam detection verdicts available to you, enabling you to decide if you trust each message. In addition to the spam and virus verdicts, Amazon SES provides the DKIM and SPF check results.”

• Sns comparison Report an error

  “Amazon SES is for applications that need to send communications via email. Amazon SES supports custom email header fields, and many MIME types.”

• Standalone use Report an error

  “Amazon SES users do not need to sign up for any other AWS services. Any application with Internet access can use Amazon SES to deliver email, whether that application runs in your own data center, within Amazon EC2, or as a client software solution.”

• Channels Report an error

  “If you have an AWS Support plan, you can create a new support case directly from the web-based AWS management console. AWS Support plans begin at $29 per month.”

• Billing dashboard Report an error

  “You can view your charges for the current billing period at any time by visiting the Billing Dashboard in the AWS Management Console.”

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