DevOps & Infrastructure

AWS SES Email Service

Configure AWS Simple Email Service for transactional emails with domain verification, DKIM setup, and sending templates.

Claude Code Codex Cursor

Overview

Amazon SES is a cost-effective email service for sending transactional and marketing emails at scale. AI agents can help you verify domains, configure DKIM and SPF records, create email templates, set up sending configurations, and implement bounce and complaint handling, all through CLI commands and SDK code.

Setting up SES correctly requires configuring DNS records (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), verifying sender identities, moving out of the sandbox, and implementing proper bounce handling. AI agents can generate all the necessary DNS records, write the verification commands, create sending functions in your preferred language, and set up SNS topics for bounce and complaint notifications.

For developers building applications that send email, your AI agent can generate SDK code for sending templated emails, create email templates with dynamic variables, implement rate limiting to stay within SES quotas, and set up a dedicated IP warm-up schedule for high-volume sending. The agent can also help troubleshoot delivery issues by analyzing SES sending statistics and reputation metrics.

Who Is This For?

Developers integrating transactional email into web applications
DevOps engineers configuring domain verification and DKIM for SES
Teams setting up bounce and complaint handling with SNS notifications
Marketing teams creating and managing SES email templates

Installation

Setup for Claude Code

Install AWS CLI: brew install awscli
Claude Code runs aws ses commands and generates SDK code

Configuration

// Send email with AWS SDK v3
import { SESClient, SendEmailCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-ses";
const ses = new SESClient({ region: "us-east-1" });
await ses.send(new SendEmailCommand({
  Source: "noreply@example.com",
  Destination: { ToAddresses: ["user@example.com"] },
  Message: {
    Subject: { Data: "Hello" },
    Body: { Html: { Data: "<h1>Welcome!</h1>" } },
  },
}));