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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.

Your data

Data location
In the AWS Region whose endpoint you call; SES is available in several regions26
Retention
Not published
Suppression list retention
Addresses stay on the account-level suppression list until you delete them23
Used for training
Not published
Zero data retention
Not published
Deleting data
Personal data can be deleted through the console or API, or by closing the AWS account23
Encryption in transit
Opportunistic TLS by default for outbound mail; TLS 1.2 required for API connections22

Compliance

Certifications
SOC, PCI, FedRAMP, HIPAA and others24
HIPAA
Listed on the AWS HIPAA eligible services reference25

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