AWS Simple Email Service + Lambda using templates

How many of you need to automatize email sending to your customers, from login, signup, email marketing campaigns, etc.

There are a bunch of solutions on the market such as SendGrid, Twilio, AWS, google cloud functions.

We are not going to discuss these technologies but explore AWS Simple Email Service.

But why

• Amazon SES removes the complexity and expense of building your own email solution (Installing software , buying licenses, build infrastructure) .
• Aws SES is the most cost-effective tool for email sending. It costs 0.10 USD every 1K emails you send.
• 2199 cool companies and startups use Amazon SES ,including Netflix, Twitch, Amazon

• You have the entire AWS Ecosystem for integrations and more.
• The thrust of developers.

Key Features

• Basically our app will call AWS Lambda function. This function will handle some data entries and use our email template to send it to your clients
• This service should be agnostic of the technology we are using: a web app, mobile app, or IoT.
• This service must work with Email templates, and these templates should be host in the cloud.

1. Verify the sender’s account

Login in to your AWS Console and go to SES

Don’t forget to choose your preferred location and keep it in mind, please.📝

Now we are going to verify the sender's email Adress, for this test I’m using a Gmail account.