AWS SES

Guide on how to add AWS SES Email Integration

Step 1. Account Setup

  • To access Amazon SES, you need to Sign up for AWS first.

  • Before you send an eMail through Amazon SES, you need to verify that you own the “From” address.

  • Initially, your SES account will be in Sandbox, and you will be allowed to send emails to only verified emails. You can verify all your “To” addresses or domains. For more information, see Verifying identities in Amazon SES. In the AWS SES sandbox, you can only send emails to addresses/domains you have verified. Also, it has a quota of 200 emails per 24-hour period at a maximum rate of one email per second. To increase your sending quotas and to send email to unverified email addresses, see Moving out of the Amazon SES sandbox.

Make sure to enable production access before you go live.

Step 2. AWS SES Integration in KDC

Keys
Details

From Address

Your verified “From” email address

From Name

“From Name” of your emails. You can also pass this in the Send Event API. Check the Advanced section below.

Access Key ID

Your AWS Access Key ID. To get your access credentials, check here.

Secret Access Key

Your AWS Secret Access Key. To get your access credentials, check here.

Region

Your AWS Region. Default is “ap-south-1”.

Reply to Address

Reply email address. You can also pass this in the Send Event API. Check the Advanced section below.

Step 3. Delivery Reports

Setting up Delivery Reports for Emails sent via SES is tricky and requires you to set up AWS SNS. We will soon be updating the steps to set up delivery reports. For more information, you can refer to the AWS guide to configure SNS for SES.

💫 Advanced

Send additional parameters to AWS SES

By default, KDC will send the fields in the Email template to SES. Additionally, you can send “cc”, “bcc”, “From Name”, “Reply-to” fields in the Send Event API. This will override the fields added in the Integration. Please check our Override doc here.

IP Whitelisting

You can control access to SES by specifying KDC’s IP address, or ensuring KDC's IP addresses are not blocked. Please follow the AWS guide here.

IPs: 139.59.53.104 | 64.227.148.154

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