Send email
Amazon SES
Email service that sends and receives mail through an API, SMTP or SDKs, with delivery events published to AWS services.
Rate limits
| Scope | Limit |
|---|---|
| Sandbox sending rate | 1 email per second |
| Sandbox daily quota | 200 emails per 24 hours |
| Production sending rate and daily quota | Set by AWS per account and region based on use case; increases can be requested |
API actions other than SendEmail and SendBulkEmail | 1 request per second |
Source3Service quotas in Amazon SES
Other limits
- Recipients per message
- 50 (To, CC and BCC combined)3
- Message size, API v2 or SMTP
- 40 MB after base64 encoding3
- Message size, API v1
- 10 MB after base64 encoding3
- Email templates
- 20,000 per region; 500 KB each3
- Configuration sets
- 10,000 per region; 10 event destinations per set3
- Dedicated IP pools
- 503
- Received email stored in S3
- 40 MB3
- Quotas apply per
- AWS Region3
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