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Amazon SES

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cloud-based email sending service designed to help digital marketers and application developers send marketing, notification, and transactional emails, providing a reliable and scalable infrastructure for email communication.

Amazon SES publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Contact Lists API, Email Sending API, Identities API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Email, Email Deliverability, Email Service, Marketing Email, and Notifications.

The Amazon SES catalog on APIs.io includes 3 JSON-LD contexts and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Amazon SES’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, terms of service, privacy policy, support, engineering blog, GitHub presence, and 28 more developer resources.

54.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
16 APIs 2 Agent Skills
EmailEmail DeliverabilityEmail ServiceMarketing EmailNotificationsSMTPTransactional Email

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 54.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 13.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.5 / 13
Governance 8.3 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 16

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 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 1

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

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

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

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 3

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

Amazon Ses Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Ses Vulnerability Disclosure

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 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

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 a cloud-based email sending service designed to help digital marketers and
  application developers send marketing, notification, and transactional emails, providing a reliable and scalable infrastructure
  for email communication.
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: '2026-05-19'
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/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-contact-lists-api
  name: Amazon SES Contact Lists API
  description: Operations for managing contact lists.
  tags:
  - Contact Lists
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-ses-contact-lists-api-openapi.yml
- aid: amazon-ses:amazon-ses-email-sending-api
  name: Amazon SES Email Sending API
  description: Operations for sending email messages.
  tags:
  - Email Sending
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-ses-email-sending-api-openapi.yml
- aid: amazon-ses:amazon-ses-identities-api
  name: Amazon SES Identities API
  description: Operations for managing email identities.
  tags:
  - Identities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-ses-identities-api-openapi.yml
- aid: amazon-ses:amazon-ses-templates-api
  name: Amazon SES Templates API
  description: Operations for managing email templates.
  tags:
  - Templates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-ses-templates-api-openapi.yml
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: Agent Skills
  url: https://github.com/amazon-ses/skills
  type: AgentSkills
- type: Portal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/
- type: Website
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/
- type: terms
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: privacy
  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: github
  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/amazon-ses-openapi.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/
maintainer:
  name: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
tags:
- AWS
- Email
- Email Deliverability
- Email Service
- Marketing Email
- Notifications
- SMTP
- Transactional Email
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