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Amazon SES

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is AWS's cloud email platform for sending and receiving mail at scale — marketing, notification and transactional. The current contract is the SES v2 API (version 2019-09-27), an 86-operation REST-JSON service authenticated with AWS Signature Version 4 and reached at a regional endpoint, alongside an SMTP submission interface on ports 25/465/587/2465/2587. It covers email sending and templated bulk sends, domain and address identity verification with DKIM, SPF and DMARC alignment, configuration sets and event publishing to SNS, EventBridge, CloudWatch and Firehose, contact lists and subscription topics, account and configuration-set suppression lists, dedicated IP pools both managed and standard, tenants for per-workload reputation isolation, and Virtual Deliverability Manager for inbox placement and reputation reporting. Mail Manager adds inbound processing with ingress points, traffic policies, rule sets, relays and archives. Every new account starts in the SES sandbox, and a published mailbox simulator forces delivery, bounce, complaint and out-of-office outcomes on demand.

Amazon SES publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including v2 API, Contact Lists API, Email Sending API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Email, Email Deliverability, Email Service, Marketing Email, and Notification.

The Amazon SES catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 3 JSON-LD contexts, and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Amazon SES’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, support, engineering blog, and 61 more developer resources.

79.0/100 exemplar ▬ flat Agent 55/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
AccessFreemium
17 APIs 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills
EmailEmail DeliverabilityEmail ServiceMarketing EmailNotificationSMTPTransactional EmailBulk EmailEmail ReceivingDKIMMessagingCloud Infrastructure

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 79.0/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 15.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 18.1 / 20
Access Clarity 20.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 10.9 / 13
Contract Governance 6.6 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 55/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 17

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Amazon SES Documentation

Official AWS documentation for Amazon Simple Email Service, providing comprehensive guides, API references, and tutorials for email sending and management.

Amazon SES OpenAPI

The OpenAPI definition for the Amazon SES API, describing all available operations for sending emails, managing identities, contact lists, and email templates.

Amazon SES OpenAPI (APIs.guru)

The APIs.guru maintained OpenAPI definition for the Amazon SES API.

Amazon SES JSON Schema

JSON Schema definitions for the Amazon SES API request and response objects.

Amazon SES JSON-LD Context

JSON-LD context document for Amazon SES API resources providing semantic linked data mappings.

Amazon SES Pricing

Pricing details for Amazon SES including email sending, receiving, and additional features.

Amazon SES Getting Started

Getting started guide for Amazon SES, helping new users set up and begin sending emails.

Amazon SES FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Amazon SES covering features, pricing, deliverability, and compliance.

Amazon SES User Guide

Comprehensive user guide for Amazon SES covering all features and best practices for email communication.

Amazon SES API Reference

Complete API reference documentation for Amazon SES with detailed descriptions of all operations, parameters, and data types.

Amazon SES CLI Reference

AWS CLI reference for Amazon SES, providing command-line access to all SES operations.

Amazon SES Security

Security documentation for Amazon SES covering authentication, authorization, and encryption.

Amazon SES v2 API

The full Amazon Simple Email Service v2 API (API version 2019-09-27) — 86 operations across email sending, email identities and DKIM, configuration sets and event destinations, ...

Amazon SES Contact Lists API

Operations for managing contact lists.

Amazon SES Email Sending API

Operations for sending email messages.

Amazon SES Identities API

Operations for managing email identities.

Amazon SES Templates API

Operations for managing email templates.

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Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

aws-mail-manager

AGENT SKILL

aws-ses

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Amazon Ses Rate Limits

24 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Semantic Vocabularies 3

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Amazon Ses Context

0 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Amazon Ses Emailmessage Context

1 classes · 19 properties

JSON-LD

Amazon Ses Openapi Email Message Context

1 classes · 12 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Amazon SES API Rules

4 rules · 3 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Amazon SES API Rules

22 rules · 8 errors 13 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

EmailMessage

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EmailMessage

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Amazon Ses Emailmessage Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Ses Openapi Email Message Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Ses Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Amazon Ses Authentication

apiKey/sigv4/smtp-credentials · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Ses Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Ses Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Ses Trust Center

PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Amazon Ses Agentic Access

6 operations · 4 acting

6 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 7

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

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Documentation 6

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 7

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

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Design & Contract 13

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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Build 8

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 6

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
name: Amazon SES
description: Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is AWS's cloud email platform for sending and receiving mail at scale — marketing,
  notification and transactional. The current contract is the SES v2 API (version 2019-09-27), an 86-operation REST-JSON service
  authenticated with AWS Signature Version 4 and reached at a regional endpoint, alongside an SMTP submission interface on
  ports 25/465/587/2465/2587. It covers email sending and templated bulk sends, domain and address identity verification with
  DKIM, SPF and DMARC alignment, configuration sets and event publishing to SNS, EventBridge, CloudWatch and Firehose, contact
  lists and subscription topics, account and configuration-set suppression lists, dedicated IP pools both managed and standard,
  tenants for per-workload reputation isolation, and Virtual Deliverability Manager for inbox placement and reputation reporting.
  Mail Manager adds inbound processing with ingress points, traffic policies, rule sets, relays and archives. Every new account
  starts in the SES sandbox, and a published mailbox simulator forces delivery, bounce, complaint and out-of-office outcomes
  on demand.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-ses/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-15'
modified: '2026-08-13'
apis:
- name: Amazon SES Documentation
  description: Official AWS documentation for Amazon Simple Email Service, providing comprehensive guides, API references,
    and tutorials for email sending and management.
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/
  type: Documentation
  properties: []
- name: Amazon SES OpenAPI
  description: The OpenAPI definition for the Amazon SES API, describing all available operations for sending emails, managing
    identities, contact lists, and email templates.
  url: openapi/_original/amazon-ses-openapi.yml
  type: OpenAPI
  properties: []
- name: Amazon SES OpenAPI (APIs.guru)
  description: The APIs.guru maintained OpenAPI definition for the Amazon SES API.
  url: https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/amazonaws.com/sesv2/2019-09-27/openapi.yaml
  type: OpenAPI
  properties: []
- name: Amazon SES JSON Schema
  description: JSON Schema definitions for the Amazon SES API request and response objects.
  url: json-schema/amazon-ses-emailmessage-schema.json
  type: JSONSchema
  properties: []
- name: Amazon SES JSON-LD Context
  description: JSON-LD context document for Amazon SES API resources providing semantic linked data mappings.
  url: json-ld/amazon-ses-context.jsonld
  type: JSONLD
  properties: []
- name: Amazon SES Pricing
  description: Pricing details for Amazon SES including email sending, receiving, and additional features.
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/
  type: Pricing
  properties: []
- name: Amazon SES Getting Started
  description: Getting started guide for Amazon SES, helping new users set up and begin sending emails.
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/send-email-getting-started.html
  type: GettingStarted
  properties: []
- name: Amazon SES FAQ
  description: Frequently asked questions about Amazon SES covering features, pricing, deliverability, and compliance.
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/faqs/
  type: FAQ
  properties: []
- name: Amazon SES User Guide
  description: Comprehensive user guide for Amazon SES covering all features and best practices for email communication.
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/Welcome.html
  type: user-guide
  properties: []
- name: Amazon SES API Reference
  description: Complete API reference documentation for Amazon SES with detailed descriptions of all operations, parameters,
    and data types.
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/Welcome.html
  type: api-reference
  properties: []
- name: Amazon SES CLI Reference
  description: AWS CLI reference for Amazon SES, providing command-line access to all SES operations.
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/sesv2/
  type: cli-reference
  properties: []
- name: Amazon SES Security
  description: Security documentation for Amazon SES covering authentication, authorization, and encryption.
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/security.html
  type: Security
  properties: []
- aid: amazon-ses:amazon-ses-v2-api
  name: Amazon SES v2 API
  description: The full Amazon Simple Email Service v2 API (API version 2019-09-27) — 86 operations across email sending,
    email identities and DKIM, configuration sets and event destinations, contact lists and contacts, email templates, suppression
    lists, dedicated IP pools, deliverability reporting, tenants, import/export jobs and account settings. Harvested verbatim
    from the APIs.guru conversion of the first-party AWS SDK service model for sesv2.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/Welcome.html
  baseURL: https://email.{region}.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Email Sending
  - Identities
  - Contact Lists
  - Templates
  - Suppression
  - Deliverability
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/amazon-ses-sesv2-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/amazon-ses-sesv2-overlay.yaml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/amazon-ses-tool-crosswalk.yml
- aid: amazon-ses:amazon-ses-contact-lists-api
  name: Amazon SES Contact Lists API
  description: Operations for managing contact lists.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_CreateContactList.html
  baseURL: https://email.{region}.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Contact Lists
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-ses-contact-lists-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/amazon-ses-contact-lists-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: amazon-ses:amazon-ses-email-sending-api
  name: Amazon SES Email Sending API
  description: Operations for sending email messages.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_SendEmail.html
  baseURL: https://email.{region}.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Email Sending
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-ses-email-sending-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/amazon-ses-email-sending-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: amazon-ses:amazon-ses-identities-api
  name: Amazon SES Identities API
  description: Operations for managing email identities.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_CreateEmailIdentity.html
  baseURL: https://email.{region}.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Identities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-ses-identities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/amazon-ses-identities-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: amazon-ses:amazon-ses-templates-api
  name: Amazon SES Templates API
  description: Operations for managing email templates.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_CreateEmailTemplate.html
  baseURL: https://email.{region}.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Templates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-ses-templates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/amazon-ses-templates-api-overlay.yaml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/amazon-ses-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/amazon-ses-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/amazon-ses-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/amazon-ses-domain-security.yml
- name: Amazon SES Agent Skills
  url: skills/_index.yml
  type: AgentSkill
- name: Amazon SES Agent Skills (provider repository)
  url: https://github.com/amazon-ses/skills
  type: AgentSkill
- type: Portal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/
- type: Website
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/Welcome.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/send-email-getting-started.html
- type: Pricing
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/support/
- type: Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aws
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ses/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://signin.aws.amazon.com/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: knowledge-center
  url: https://repost.aws/knowledge-center
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices
- type: StackOverflow
  url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-ses
- type: Contact
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
- type: Security
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/security/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/amazon-ses-context.jsonld
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/amazon-ses-emailmessage-context.jsonld
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/amazon-ses-openapi-email-message-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-ses-emailmessage-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-ses-openapi-email-message-schema.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-ses-emailmessage-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-ses-openapi-email-message-structure.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-ses-emailmessage-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-ses-openapi-email-message-example.json
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/amazon-ses-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/amazon-ses-vocabulary.yaml
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/amazon-ses-openapi.yml
- name: Amazon SES v2 OpenAPI (86 operations)
  type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/amazon-ses-sesv2-openapi.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/amazon-ses-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/amazon-ses-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/amazon-ses-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/amazon-ses-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/amazon-ses-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/amazon-ses-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/amazon-ses-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/amazon-ses-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/amazon-ses-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/amazon-ses-conformance.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/amazon-ses-sandbox.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/amazon-ses-events.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/amazon-ses-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/amazon-ses-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/amazon-ses-llms.txt
- name: Amazon SES API v2 Reference llms.txt
  type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/amazon-ses-api-reference-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/amazon-ses-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/amazon-ses-security.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/amazon-ses-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/amazon-ses-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/amazon-ses-finops.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/amazon-ses-sesv2-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/amazon-ses-email-sending-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/amazon-ses-identities-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/amazon-ses-contact-lists-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/amazon-ses-templates-api-overlay.yaml
- type: PostmanCollection
  url: collections/amazon-ses.postman_collection.json
maintainer:
  name: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  name: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
  url: https://apievangelist.com
  X-twitter: apievangelist
tags:
- AWS
- Email
- Email Deliverability
- Email Service
- Marketing Email
- Notification
- SMTP
- Transactional Email
- Bulk Email
- Email Receiving
- DKIM
- Messaging
- Cloud Infrastructure
tags_raw:
- AWS
- Email
- Email Deliverability
- Email Service
- Marketing Email
- Notifications
- SMTP
- Transactional Email
- Bulk Email
- Email Receiving
- DKIM
- Messaging
- Cloud Infrastructure
integrations:
- name: Sign in
- name: Agent Mode
- name: Why AWS Marketplace?
- name: Get started in AWS Marketplace
- name: Industry
- name: Resources
- name: Become a Channel Partner
- name: Sell in AWS Marketplace
- name: Manage Your Account
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  date: '2026-08-13'
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