This is the user guide for Amazon SES Classic. Updates and new features are only being documented in the new Amazon SES Developer Guide which we recommend to use.
Send an email through Amazon SES using an AWS SDK
To send an email using the Amazon SES API, you can use the Query interface directly, or you can use an AWS SDK to handle low-level details such as assembling and parsing HTTP requests and responses.
Before you send email using an AWS SDK, review the instructions in Before you begin with Amazon SES. In order to complete the tutorials in this section, you also need to:
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Download an AWS SDK—Download and install an AWS SDK. For more information, see Downloading an AWS SDK.
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Get your AWS credentials—To access Amazon SES programmatically, you need your AWS access keys. For more information, see Getting your AWS access keys.
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Create a shared credentials file—Follow the procedures in Create a shared credentials file to create the shared credentials file.
When you have completed the prerequisites listed above, see Send an email through Amazon SES programmatically using an AWS SDK.
