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Understanding SES

Understanding SES

- So we have Simple Queue Service, we have Simple Notification Service, and we also have Simple Email Service. Simple Email Service is a service from Amazon that basically sends emails. If you want to send a million emails to a million different people, Simple Email Service will get the job done. Amazon says, Simple Email Service is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service that enables developers to send email from within any application. I totally agree with that. So they have send interfaces using the SDKs. If you want to send an email from, say, for example, a Lambda function, you can do so. If you want to send an email from CLI, the Command Line Interface, via some sort of shell script, you can do that. They also support SMTP, or Simple Mail Transport Protocol. Deployment options for the SES service. If you think about email and the, you know, spam messages that you've been receiving for the last 20 years, there is reputation associated with IP addresses these days…

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