Hi, everyone, and welcome back.
Now, in today's video, we are going to discuss about the types of Amazon SES credentials.
Now, one point to note is that if you want to interact with the Amazon SES, then you have to use the
security credentials to verify who you are and whether you have the overall permissions.
Now there are three primary types of access.
One is the Amazon SES API.
You have the SES SMTP interface and the SES console.
Now the Amazon SES console is simple to understand.
You can use your IM user and password to connect to the management console through which you can open
up the SES service.
You have the SES EPA where you can use the access and secret keys and the SES SMTP interface where you
have to use the username and password.
So you have to generate the credentials for the SMTP interface.
So let's quickly look into the use case associated with the SMTP interface.
So in many of the organizations you might have commercial or open source software packages through which
you will be sending emails.
Now generally these packages they require the SMTP endpoint through which the email can be sent.
So in such cases you can configure any such SMTP enabled software to send email through the SES SMTP
interface and in most of the use cases related to software, this is the approach that you will be using.
So if you look into the screenshot associated with WordPress, you have to supply the SMTP host, you
have to supply the SMTP port, the encryption details, the SMTP username as you can see, and the SMTP
password.
So all of these details you will be adding as part of your software and the software will use the SES
to send the emails.
So let's do one thing first.
Let's look into how these set of credentials can be generated for SMTP interface.
Now currently I am into the SES console, now you have the SMTP settings that you see and within here
you can go ahead and create the SMTP credentials.
So let's go ahead and quickly create the user.
And within here, if you click on show the SMTP credentials, you have this SMTP username and you have
the SMTP password.
So you'll have to add this as part of your software through which the emails can be sent.
So at this stage we understood on where we can find the SMTP username and the SMTP password.
The next important part here is the SMTP host.
So to connect to the SMTP endpoints, depending upon the region, the endpoint would again change in
the documentation.
You have the extensive list of endpoints for multiple region, but this is how it looks like.
For example, for the audio you have a specific SMTP endpoint.
So in case if you want to use this, you can add it as part of your software.
So that's the very high level overview about the SES credentials.
And with this will conclude today's video.