Managing configuration sets in Amazon SES - Amazon Simple Email Service
View, edit, & delete configuration set (console)List configuration sets (AWS CLI)Get configuration set details (AWS CLI)Delete a configuration set (AWS CLI)Stop sending email from a configuration set (AWS CLI)Understanding default configuration sets

Managing configuration sets in Amazon SES

After creating a configuration set, you can manage it with the view, edit, and delete options using the SES console, the Amazon SES API v2, and the Amazon SES CLI v2. Configuration sets can also be assigned to a verified identity as its default configuration set that is applied every time email is sent from the identity.

Topics in this section:

View, edit, & delete configuration set (console)

Access an existing configuration set's detail page

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon SES console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ses/.

  2. In the navigation pane, under Configuration, choose Configuration sets.

  3. To see details for a configuration set, choose the Name from the configuration set list. This takes you to the details page.

The Configuration sets detail page has two tabs for configuration set details with panels in each tab where you can view, edit, or delete as follows:

  • Overview tab

    • General details – this panel shows general details for the configuration set:

      • Sending status (whether it's currently enabled)

      • Configuration set name

      • Sending IP pool

      • Transport Layer Security (TLS)

      • Custom redirect domain

    • Reputation options – this panel shows details related to your sending reputation:

      • Reputation metrics (indicates if you're tracking metrics)

      • Last fresh start (the date and time at which the reputation metrics for the configuration set were last reset)

    • Suppression list options – this panel shows if you're overriding your account-level suppression list with the configuration set, and if so, what the override details are:

      • Suppression list settings (indicates overriding account-level settings—if not, this is the only item displayed in the panel)

      • Suppression list (indicates how you're overriding your account-level setting—either with the suppression list enabled or disabled)

      • Suppression reasons (indicates if bounces and/or complaints are the reason for adding recipient email addresses to your suppression list)

    • Virtual Deliverability Manager options – this panel shows if you're overriding your Virtual Deliverability Manager account settings for engagement tracking and optimized shared delivery with the configuration set, and if so, what the override details are:

      • Engagement tracking (indicates if engagement tracking is enabled or disabled)

      • Optimized shared delivery (indicates if optimized shared delivery is enabled or disabled)

    • Tags – this panel shows all of the tags you've attached to the configuration set.

      • Key

      • Value

    You can perform the following actions from these panels:

    • Choose the Edit button, or in the case of the Tags panel, the Manage tags button to edit the respective details of each panel.

    • For more information about the fields, see the related section in the Create a configuration set (console) steps.

    Tip

    Remember to Save changes when you are done editing. Choose Cancel to go back to the configuration set detail page without saving.

  • Event destinations tab

    • All destinations (count of event destinations) – this panel lists all of the event destinations that you have entered for your configuration set. For each destination, you can see:

      • Name

      • Destination

      • Event types

      • Event publishing

    You can perform the following actions from this panel:

    • Add a new event destination by choosing the Add destination button. For more information about adding an event destination, see Creating an event destination.

    • Modify an existing event destination by selecting its name which will open the edit screen.

    • Delete an existing event destination by selecting the check box next to its name then choosing the Delete button.

At the top of each configuration set's details page, and visible from either the Overview or Events destination tab, are the following options:

  • Delete – this button will delete your configuration set.

  • Disable sending – this button will stop sending emails from your configuration set.

List configuration sets (AWS CLI)

You can use the list-configuration-sets command in the AWS CLI to generate a list of all the configuration sets associated with your account in the current Region, as follows:

aws sesv2 list-configuration-sets

Get configuration set details (AWS CLI)

You can use the get-configuration-set command in the AWS CLI to get details for a specific configuration set, as follows:

aws sesv2 get-configuration-set --configuration-set-name name

Delete a configuration set (AWS CLI)

You can use the delete-configuration-set command in the AWS CLI to delete a specific configuration set, as follows:

aws sesv2 delete-configuration-set --configuration-set-name name

Stop sending email from a configuration set (AWS CLI)

You can use the put-configuration-set-sending-options command in the AWS CLI to stop sending email from a specific configuration set, as follows:

aws sesv2 put-configuration-set-sending-options --configuration-set-name name --no-sending-enabled

To start sending again, run the same command with the --sending-enabled option instead, as follows:

aws sesv2 put-configuration-set-sending-options --configuration-set-name name --sending-enabled

Understanding default configuration sets

The concept of assigning a configuration set as the default to be used by a verified identity is explained in this section to help understand the benefits and use case.

A default configuration set automatically applies its rules to all messages that you send from the email identity associated with that configuration set. You can apply default configuration sets to both email address and domain identities during the creation of the identity or after the fact as an edit function of an existing identity.

Default configuration set considerations

  • The configuration set must be created first before associating it with an identity.

  • Default configuration sets will only be applied if the identity is verified.

  • An email identity can be associated with only one configuration set at a time. However, you can apply the same configuration set to multiple identities.

  • A default configuration set at the email address level overrides a default configuration set at the domain level. For example, a default configuration set associated with joe@example.com overrides the configuration set for the domain of example.com.

  • A default configuration set at the domain level applies to all email addresses for that domain (unless you verify specific addresses for the domain).

  • If you delete a configuration set that's designated as the default configuration set for an identity, and then attempt to send email through that identity, your call to Amazon SES fails with a "bad request" error.

  • A default configuration set cannot be assigned to a verified identity that's being used by a delegate sender.

  • How to specify an existing configuration set to be used as the identity's default configuration set is actually a function of verified identities, so instructions are given in the identity workflows accordingly:

Note

If the configuration set you assign as a default has reputation metrics enabled, additional charges will be incurred for any mail sent using the default configuration set, see Price per metric for CloudWatch.