Mail Service

Amazon SES

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cloud-based, scalable, API-driven service designed for sending email using standard protocols such as SMTP and RESTful API. It is designed to integrate easily with applications.

Key technical characteristics

• Email sending via SMTP or HTTPS API.
• Authentication and security: Supports SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to protect sender reputation.
• Monitoring: Integration with Amazon CloudWatch for metrics such as delivery rates, bounces, and complaints.
• Suppression list management and automatically bounced addresses.
• Pay-per-use: no subscription fees; you pay only for emails sent and received.

Create and Configure

• IT Element: IT Element belonging to the application.
• Name application: Application name Amazon SES; this cannot contain spaces.
• Environment: Amazon SES service environment.
• Description of use: Brief description of the application
• Account Type:
  • API:
  • SMTP:
• Require ACL: YES / NO
• Recipient Email: Email associated with the application, where the credentials email is delivered.
• Monthly mail volume: Monthly email volume. (Remember that cost is per use)

success Important Remember that to create a Mail Service, you must belong to a squad and it must have the IT Element associated. You also need to label the GCP projects. If ACL is selected as required, the service will not send the credentials email.

Credentials

Sending Method	Credentials	Credential Contents	Link
Amazon SES API	AWS access keys	Access key ID and secret access key	Access Keys
ACL Component	AWS access keys	Access key ID and secret access key	Access Keys
Amazon SES SMTP Interface	SMTP credentials	Username and password	SMTP Credentials

Official Amazon SES documentation for LATAM.