Hey, everyone.
And welcome back.
Now, in today's video, we are going to discuss about this simple email service also referred to as
a SES.
Now, at a high level overview, the Amazon SES is an email platform and it provides the way for you
to send and receive email using your own email address and domains.
Now, whenever you register for a specific website or a forum, you get a generic email from the address
of no reply address domain dot com.
So there can be a requirement for organisation to send thousands of emails for the individuals who are
registering etc. and in order for that they can make use of the Amazon SES service.
So at a high level overview, if you look into that diagram, you have the SES and SES can send the
emails for wide variety of use cases.
Now at this stage let's say that we do not use SES, then the organisation will have to take care of
their own email server, which is a very cumbersome process.
So to make things simpler.
SES is one of the go to choice for sending emails.
So let's do one thing before we proceed further.
Let's look into this from demo perspective.
Now at this stage I am currently in the SES console and if you look into the verified identities, I
have one identity college instructors at the rate KPBS got in and the identity type is email address,
so I'll be able to send emails from this specific address.
So let's also look into it.
So let's send a test email.
Now again, there are two formats here.
Let's keep it simple at this stage, so the from address will remain to be the same, which is instructors
at the rate KPBS dot in because this is a verified address at the SES level and within the scenario,
let's just for simplicity, I'll just use custom and in the two email address also I use the same,
which is instructors at the rate KPBS dot in and in the subject message, I'll say hi from SES and in
body.
I'll say it works once.
Then you can go ahead and quickly send a test email.
Now from the email you see we got a message of hi from SES and it works.
So the email addresses instructors at direct KPBS DOT in and it also states we are the Amazon dot com.
All right so I hope with this at a high level overview you understood what the Amazon SES services for.
Now again we are just looking into a very simplistic example of sending emails.
SES provides a wide variety of features that helps you support that.
For example, it gives you a great set of dashboards related to the statistics of the email, sent,
the email, rejected the overall bounces, etc. You can create dedicated IPS, you can create email
templates and others in case if you'd like.
You can also create identity.
It can be based on an email address that you want to get it verified or even at a domain name level.
Now let's also quickly look into the workflow.
So the first step is that the email sender makes a request to the SES to send email to a set of recipients.
If the request is valid, the SES will accept the email and then the SES sends the message over the
internet to the recipient's receiver.
So you see a sender sends the request to SES ses through the ISPs.
It will go ahead and send the email to the recipient.
Now at this stage there are two important part to remember.
Either email can be bounced, For example, if an email address does not exist in such cases, it will
bounce back.
And then you also have complaints.
So if an email is sent to the user and in this case the third user has sent a complaint.
So in such cases it goes to the SES and from SES it goes to the sender.
So the sender is also notified here.
Now one more thing that you have to keep a note of is the email format.
So you have a format ID and you have the row.
So formatted is something that we have just tested so you can use it to construct a simple test message
using the form that has been provided.
However, in case if you want to achieve more complex use cases related to HTML attachments, etc.,
you can also make use of raw.
So this is the screenshot associated with the raw format.
So let me also quickly show you.
So when you send an email, let's quickly do that.
You have the email format of formatted and draw.
So when you use format, did you have the subject body?
It becomes much more simpler.
However, if you choose raw, then you have to supply a mime formatted message with all the details
over here.
So that's a very high level overview about the SES and with this will conclude today's video.