Amazon SES Templates: A Deep Dive on Stored Templates and SendEmail
How Amazon SES Templates work: the 500 KB per-template and 20,000-per-Region limits, Mustache-style merge tags, and SendEmail vs SendBulkEmail rules.
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How Amazon SES Templates work: the 500 KB per-template and 20,000-per-Region limits, Mustache-style merge tags, and SendEmail vs SendBulkEmail rules.
The Amazon SES SPF include is `include:amazonses.com` - global, not regional. But a custom MAIL FROM domain is the cleaner path for DMARC alignment.
Hit your SES daily limit? AWS approves quota increases in 24-72 hours via Support Center. Step-by-step on what to include and why requests get denied.
Set up multiple sending domains in one Amazon SES account. DKIM, SPF, and DMARC for each domain, IAM scoping, and when to use separate AWS accounts instead.
Set up production Amazon SES CloudWatch monitoring with real metrics, alarms, and dashboards. AWS pauses sending at 5% bounce rate - here's how to catch it first.
Amazon SES migration from Mailchimp drops sending costs 70-95%. Step-by-step export, cleanup, warm-up, and cutover plan for a 50k-contact list in about two weeks.
Configure a custom Amazon SES MAIL FROM domain in about 10 minutes to fix SPF alignment, pass DMARC, and stop using the default amazonses.com bounce address.
Route Amazon SES events (sends, bounces, opens, clicks) to CloudWatch, Kinesis Firehose, SNS, EventBridge, or Pinpoint. Configuration sets, IAM, and production patterns.
Amazon SES DKIM rotation differs by mode: Easy DKIM keys are not auto-rotated by AWS, BYODKIM is fully manual. M3AAWG recommends at least annual rotation.
The Amazon SES Reputation Dashboard tracks account-level bounce rate (5% under review, 10% paused) and complaint rate (0.1% under review, 0.5% paused) - here is how to read it.
Amazon SES configuration sets bundle event destinations, reputation tracking, IP pools, and TLS into named send profiles. Up to 10,000 per region. Here's how to use them.
Amazon SES CLI tutorial for AWS CLI v2: the aws sesv2 namespace replaces the legacy ses commands and covers identity, sending, suppression, and configuration sets.