Email infrastructure guide
Amazon SES API: A Practical Integration Guide
Use Amazon SES for application email while keeping your provider layer, domains, and observability under your control.
Amazon SES provides economical sending infrastructure, but product teams still need a clean application layer for domain verification, API keys, inbound routing, event data, and tenant separation.
What this means in practice
- SES identity and sandbox considerations
- Domain verification and DKIM records
- Application-level API keys and workspace controls
- Provider abstraction for future portability
Implementation checklist
- Verify a domain identity in SES and publish DNS records.
- Request production access before relying on arbitrary recipient delivery.
- Keep AWS credentials off the client and behind a server or Worker.
- Map provider responses into an application-level message record.
Questions teams ask
Is SES an email API?
SES exposes APIs, but many teams add an application-facing API around it for tenant management, inbound mail, templates, and consistent observability.
Does SES receive inbound email?
It can receive mail with the right AWS routing configuration. A product layer can make those messages accessible through an inbox or webhook.
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