Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

G.V.S. Ravi Kiran Varma
3 min readJun 29, 2023

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Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective email service built on the reliable and scalable infrastructure that Amazon.com developed to serve its own customer base. With Amazon SES, you can send transactional email, marketing messages, or any other type of high-quality content to your customers.

We can implement Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) using the Boto3 library in Python. Boto3 is the official AWS SDK for Python and provides a convenient way to interact with various AWS services, including SES.

We can import the library and start using SES. Here’s an example of sending an email using SES and Boto3:

  • First create a text file to upload into S3 bucket and give the Emails of all verified Emails separated by comma ‘ , ’.
  • Upload this text file into a bucket say ‘ravi25052’.
  • Start implementing the boto3 code to create the SES service and give the details of the S3 Bucket name, uploaded text file and Source Email.
  • Verify the Source mail by the SES service to send the Email. and confirm the service by clicking the link send by SES to the Email.
  • In order to access the Emails from the text file we split them individually and store them in to a array of Emails.

Note: what ever mails we mentioned in the text file should be verified by SES service by the created Topic.

  • On Running the block of code the SES service will send the Message to the Emails from the Source Email.

Summary:

Using Amazon SES and the Boto3 library, you successfully sent messages to multiple email addresses.

You installed Boto3 and configured your AWS credentials, imported the necessary modules, created an SES client, and used methods like send_email to send messages and verify_email_identity to verify email addresses to retrieve a list of verified email addresses.

Through this process, you were able to leverage SES and Boto3 to send emails programmatically, verify email addresses, and manage email communications effectively.

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