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amazon-ses

Guides Amazon SES onboarding for domain-based email sending. Covers identity configuration, production access, an optional first test send, and troubleshooting setup, authentication, or sending failures. Use when setting up SES, resuming incomplete onboarding, or leaving the sandbox. Does not cover inbound email or Mail Manager, SMS/voice, WhatsApp, SNS, Pinpoint, or WorkMail.

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# Amazon SES

## Overview

> **Recommended**: Use the [AWS MCP Server](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-mcp/latest/userguide/what-is-mcp-server.html) with SES permissions for sandboxed execution and CloudTrail audit logging.
> **Without MCP**: All operations use standard AWS CLI syntax (`aws sesv2 ...`).

Takes a developer who is not an email authentication expert from an empty AWS account to a
real, authenticated email in their inbox, and on to production sending if AWS approves the
request.

Read the account and identity state before touching anything, and complete only the parts of
domain setup that are actually missing. Request production access only after domain setup is
complete and the user has given explicit consent. A test send is optional: run it when the user