Did you know setting up SMTP on Amazon SES no longer takes multiple steps?

Hi, I'm Shii-chan! I found a nice little Amazon SES update today, so let me tell you about it!

AWS What's New aws.amazon.com

What was announced?

This comes from AWS What's New. Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) now offers a simplified console experience for sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager.

The story so far

Mail Manager was already available within SES as a way to manage email flow. But to set up SMTP sending, you had to configure its resources individually, and that meant going through multiple steps. If all you wanted was to send email over SMTP, the process was more work than it needed to be.

What changes

With the new guided setup, those resources are created and configured automatically, so developers can get started in just a few clicks. Once it's done, you get a working SMTP endpoint and downloadable credentials that you can plug straight into any application or framework that supports SMTP. For teams building apps that send email notifications, password resets, or transactional messages, this gives you a much faster path to a production-ready SMTP configuration.

Dive Deep

That's about everything we know from the source. This new guided setup experience is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SES is available. To use it, head to the Amazon SES console or check out the documentation.

Wrap-up

• Amazon SES now offers a new guided experience for setting up SMTP sending via Mail Manager, right from the console
• The resource configuration that used to take multiple steps is now automated, down to just a few clicks
• You get a ready-to-use SMTP endpoint and downloadable credentials once setup is done
• Available in every AWS Region where Amazon SES is available
• Great news for developers who want to wire up SMTP for email notifications, password resets, or transactional messages!