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Amazon SES

Email service that sends and receives mail through an API, SMTP or SDKs, with delivery events published to AWS services.

At a glance

Provider
Amazon Web Services
Category
Send email
Type
Hosted API
Pricing model
Pay as you go; $0.16 per 1,000 emails on the default Essentials plan, $0.10 à la carte1
Free tier
Up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits for new AWS customers1
Authentication
AWS IAM credentials (SigV4) for the API; SMTP username and password; OAuth 2.1 or SigV4 for the AWS MCP Server15
Connect via
REST API (v2), SMTP, AWS SDKs and CLI, general AWS MCP Server5
Read from the provider's pages
2026-11-04
Pricing
  • Pricing model: Pay as you go by emails sent and received; optional monthly plans (Essentials, Pro, Enterprise) or à la carte
  • Free tier: Up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits for new AWS customers; credits must be used within 12 months of account creation
  • Card required for free tier: Not published
Pricing in full →Tools
  • Official MCP server: Yes, remote
  • Address or package: https://aws-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp
  • Scope: General AWS server, not SES-specific; SES guidance comes from the amazon-ses skill and SES calls go through aws___run_script
Tools in full →Authentication
  • Who creates the account: A person signs up for an AWS account; no statement on agents signing up alone
  • Where to get a key: IAM access keys for the API; SES console for SMTP credentials
  • Other requirements: New accounts start in the sandbox; moving to production is a request a person submits in the console, answered by AWS Support within 96 hours
Authentication in full →Setup
  • REST API: https://email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (one endpoint per region)
  • MCP server: https://aws-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp
  • OpenAPI spec: Not published
Setup in full →Limits
  • Recipients per message: 50 (To, CC and BCC combined)
  • Message size, API v2 or SMTP: 40 MB after base64 encoding
  • Message size, API v1: 10 MB after base64 encoding
Limits in full →Privacy
  • Data location: In the AWS Region whose endpoint you call; SES is available in several regions
  • Retention: Not published
  • Suppression list retention: Addresses stay on the account-level suppression list until you delete them
Privacy in full →

Read from Amazon Web Services’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/send-email/amazon-ses.md