aws ses email sending limit - amazon-web-services

AWS ses in my account has production access. I have also setup automation for pausing domain/email addresses if bounce/complaint rate is high. I am looking to limit emails sending per domain. I mean any domain/email address in my account will be allowed to send only 100 emails per day. can someone please suggest me how can I do this? I have looked at various AWS docs but couldn't come up with any solution.

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Use Amazon SES to build a marketing email system

Currently I'm working on building an email marketing system using Amazon SES. I have some problems which I have googled about for a while now but I couldn't find any clue so I decided to ask you guys here.
The first thing is I use only one Amazon account to send email, but it is limited up to 10,000 verified sending addresses or domains per region, so if I want to verify more than that I need to use different regions or Amazon accounts?
Next, is there any way can I add some custom arguments when I request to verify an email address? Because I need to check which account in my system owns that address so that no other account can use that verified address to send emails.
Any answer would be appreciated. And by the way, I'm sorry for my bad English.
Email address verification is only required while Amazon SES is in sandbox mode. This is done to prevent people creating an AWS account and using it to send spam.
From Moving out of the Amazon SES sandbox - Amazon Simple Email Service:
When your account is in the sandbox, we apply the following restrictions to your account:
You can only send mail to verified email addresses and domains, or to the Amazon SES mailbox simulator.
You can only send mail from verified email addresses and domains (also applies to Production mode)
You can send a maximum of 200 messages per 24-hour period.
You can send a maximum of 1 message per second.
You would typically only "send" from one email address, or perhaps a few to make it easier to handle replies. There should be no need for 100s or 1000s of verified 'sending' email addresses.
Once you request to move into Production mode and it is accepted, you can send to any recipients (whereas in Sandbox mode, each recipient need to be verified).

Does emailing through AWS SES still depend on email hosting's daily number of emails limit?

I have email hosting with GoDaddy, with only one account. GoDaddy email has a limit of 250 emails per day.
Now, AWS SES can do up to 50000 emails per day.
So here is my question:
If I send out emails using AWS SES with my GoDaddy email address, would GoDaddy email daily limit still apply? OR would I be able to deliver up to 50000 emails per day?
Thank you in advance for answering my question.
If you send emails using AWS SES then GoDaddy is no longer part of the picture and it's limit can be ignored. SES provides is providing its' own infrastructure to send emails and doesn't rely on Godaddy.
In the case of AWS SES there are some limits to be aware of
You can only send emails from domains you own.
You will need to verify that you own the domain you wish to send emails from.
Emails must be less than 10MB
The number of emails you can send is determined by 2 factors:
Sending limit: the maximum number of recipients that you can send email to in a 24-hour period.
Maximum send rate: the maximum number of recipients that you can send email per second.
You may find this page helpful: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/faqs/

Does the SES email quota apply to verification mail by Amazon Cognito?

I'm setting up Amazon Cognito user pools as means to authenticate my users.
Cognito sends verification emails (password reset, confirm email address etc.).
Cognito uses Amazon SES for sending emails and Amazon SES is limited to 200 daily email quota per day.
I'm afraid that once I've imported all my users to Amazon Cognito, resulting with each of them receiving a couple of emails upon their next login, I'll be well over the quota and they will not be able to receive those emails.
Does anyone know whether this quota applies to automatic emails by Amazon Cognito?
Cognito has gotten a much higher sending limit than 200, you shouldn't run into issues. If you do, feel free to reach out to us via the forums/support and we can get you around that.
If you use Amazon SES for sending emails the certainly Amazon SES quota applies.
But 200 per day sounds suspiciously like SES Sandbox. In which case you're not only limited to 200 a day, but you also have to "validate" each e-mail address first before you can even start sending e-mails to that address.
So, if you want to send large number of e-mails to a wide audience as you described in the question you certainly need to move it out of sandbox.
Just test your configuration in Sandbox (so you know it's all working correctly) and then apply for quota increase. (I know, it sounds scary, but procedure is actually quite simple and straight forward.)

Amazon SES Verified Identities Limit

I'm using Amazon SES and found that there's a limit on verifying identities i.e. 1000 emails (senders) per account.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/limits.html#limits-sender-recipient
My application is sending around million emails everyday, and I am creating email identites, but now I am coming near to 1000.
What's the best work around to solve this issue? Or is there any chance Amazon will increase it?
Amazon will not increase that for now. You can:
1.- Use 1.000 Verified Senders for each SES region, which totals: 3.000, the more regions Amazon adds to SES, the more Verified Senders you'll have. Today Amazon has SES available on the following regions: Virginia, Oregon, Ireland.
2.- Create another Amazon AWS account, so you have 3.000 more Verified Senders available.
3.- Best approach, not yet available from AWS: create separate AWS accounts for each of your users using AWS API, and then create a user for that AWS account with a Policy which enables that user to use the SES API.
Be careful when allowing so many senders use your SES account. If any of them does malpractice, Amazon AWS team, will right away cancel your AWS account or limit your SES sending capabilities.
Don't do this!
First of all, SES is designed to be a "few senders to many recipients" service, not a "many (untrusted) senders to many recipients".
Second, sending emails on behalf of others is not a good practice; instead, use your own verified sender and add the user as a Reply-To: address. In this way, hitting the Reply will send the email to the correct person and you can actually use email signing (DKIM, etc.).
For example:
From: <mailer#yourdomain.com>
Reply-To: <user#domain.org>
Subject: ...
Not sure if sendgrid sets a limitation on sender addresses, I couldn't find anything on any limits for that. They may be a good alternative for your use case. https://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/Marketing_Emails_API/sender_address.html

What is the difference between sendmail and Amazon SES on Ec2

I am confused with sending emails on Ec2.
i want to know why would we need SES if we can send emails using sendmail like we normally use in VPS servers.
Whats the benefit of that. Am i missing something
There isn't much difference if you are sending only few emails. But if you are sending many emails daily like user notifications, promotion etc then amazon doesn't like then being send from EC2.
Bulk emailing might get ec2 ip ranges blacklisted I guess, so when you send bulk emails from EC2, AWS will issue a notice. I have seen that when I had some configuration issue with my script and send a few hundred email in a very short period.
Amazon provides a way to remove these limitation on EC2 by submitting a request through the link given below
https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/contactus/ec2-email-limit-rdns-request
You might have to setup elasticips for the EC2 instances, DKIM signing mechanism, SPF record, antispam, TLS etc.
Sending email using AWS SES apis are very easy (atleast from my point of view) compared to the above config and if you are a EC2 user then SES is available free of charge.