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Amazon Simple Email Service In AWS

In this article, we will discuss Amazon Simple Email Service in AWS.

Purpose

The Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) enables the developers to build an email functionality. There are different features that SES provides. You can go through this link.

How To Create SES?

In this article, we will create the SMTP credentials. For that, we will work on the following steps: -

Verify the email address
Create SMTP credentials

Let us work on each step.

Verify The Email Address

First, search the word Amazon Simple Email Service in the search box. Click on Amazon Simple Email Service in the search result.

Picture showing the Amazon Simple Email Service in the search result of the AWS console

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The SES screen will appear. Click on the Email Addresses link. On the right-hand side, click on the Verify a New Email Address button.

Picture showing the Verify a New Email Address button for verifying the sender email address

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A popup window appears to enter the email address.

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Enter the email address and click on the Verify This Email Address button. You will receive an email on the specified email address.

Picture showing the verification email on the specified email address

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Click on the link to verify the email address. Once the email address is verified, the email status is changed to verified.

Picture showing the status of the email as verified

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Create SMTP Credentials

To create the SMTP credentials, click on the SMTP Settings link. On the SMTP settings screen, click on the Create My SMTP Credentials button.

Picture showing the button for creating the SMTP credentials

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A window appears to create an IAM User Name. Click on the Create button.

Picture showing the screen to specify the IAM user name used as SMTP credentails

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The SMTP credentials are created.

Picture showing the SMTP credentails created using the SES

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A user is added in the IAM users.

Picture showing the user created in the IAM user screen

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You can use SMTP credentials to send an email programmatically.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Monday, November 1, 2021

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