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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.
17 APIs
1 MCP Servers
2 Agent Skills
Email Email Deliverability Email Service Marketing Email Notification SMTP Transactional Email Bulk Email Email Receiving DKIM Messaging Cloud Infrastructure
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MCP Servers 1
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Vocabularies 3
Spectral Rules 2
JSON Schema 2
JSON Structure 3
Examples 2
Security Posture 4
Agentic Access 1
Resources 68
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Machine-Readable Contract
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Agentic Access Contract
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MCP Server
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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
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