AWS for Developers: Simple Email Service (SES) (2019)

1h 20mIntermediate2019-02-21

Authors

Jeremy Villeneuve

Founder of Halvanta, LLC, an IT consulting firm

Course details

Amazon SES is one of the most cost-effective solutions for reliably delivering email. SES eliminates the hassle of managing outgoing SMTP servers and Amazon maintains relationships with all the large email providers, which will improve your reputation as an email sender and increase your delivery rate. To learn more about using SES for email delivery, join Jeremy "JV" Villeneuve in this hands-on, introductory training course. JV explains how to configure your domain for SES and set up your credentials so you can start sending email with SES using SMTP. He then walks through a practical example that shows how to send email from a WordPress site. In chapter three, JV explains how to monitor your sender reputation and reduce the number of bounces and complaints you receive, so your account avoids the risk of probation. Plus, learn how you can automatically remove bounced email addresses from your lists using customized Lambda functions.

Learning objectives
Setting up DKIM
Verifying test email addresses
Sending email with SES and SMTP
Sending email from WordPress with SES
Setting up probation warnings
Reducing bounces and complaints in SES
Handling bounces with serverless Lambda functions

Skills covered

Amazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonCloud ServicesCloud PlatformsCloud ComputingDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Simple Email Service (SES) for sending cheap and reliable email
02 - Course organization

1. Set Up SES with the SMTP Interface

03 - Set up DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) for your domain
04 - What is DKIM and Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
05 - How do I check my DNS records
06 - Verify your email address with SES
07 - Send email through Amazon SES with SMTP

2. Send Email from WordPress Using SES

08 - How WordPress sends email
09 - Using WP Mail SMTP
10 - Send newsletters from WordPress with SES

3. Staying Off Probation with SES

11 - Track SES usage with CloudWatch
12 - Set up a probation warning alert
13 - SES bounce notifications with Simple Notification Service (SNS)
14 - Hard vs. soft bounces in SES
15 - Rejected and undelivered messages in SES
16 - Reduce bounces and complaints in SES
17 - Move out of the SES sandbox

4. Handling Bounces Automatically with SNS and Lambda

18 - Lambda functions to handle SES bounces
19 - Lambda for SES to a MySQL database

Conclusion

20 - Next steps