Service quotas in Amazon SES

The following sections list and describe the quotas that apply to Amazon SES resources and operations. Some quotas can be increased, while others can't. To determine whether you can request an increase for a quota, refer to the Adjustable column.

Note

Amazon SES quotas are for each AWS Region that you use in your AWS account.

Email sending quotas

The following quotas apply to sending email through Amazon SES.

Sending quotas

Quotas are based on the number of recipients, rather than on the number of messages.

Resource	Default Quota	Adjustable
Number of emails that can be sent per 24-hour period	If your account is in the sandbox, you can send up to 200 emails per 24-hour period. If your account is out of the sandbox, this number varies based on your specific use case.	Yes
Number of emails that can be sent per second (sending rate)	If your account is in the sandbox, you can send 1 email per second. If your account is out of the sandbox, this rate varies based on your specific use case.	Yes

Message quotas

Resource	Default Quota	Adjustable
Using the SES v1 API - Maximum message size (including attachments)	10 MB per message (after base64 encoding).	No (For workloads with message sizes in excess of 10MB, consider migrating to the SES v2 API.)
Using the SES v2 API or SMTP - Maximum message size (including attachments)	40 MB per message (after base64 encoding).	No

Note

Messages larger than 10MB are subject to bandwidth throttling, and depending on your sending rate, you may be throttled to as low as 40MB/s. For example, you could send a 40MB message at the rate of 1 message per second, or two 20MB messages per second.

Sender and recipient quotas

Resource	Default Quota	Adjustable
Maximum number of recipients per message	50 recipients per message. Note A recipient is any "To", "CC", or "BCC" address.	Recipient limit is not adjustable. Please contact your AWS Account Manager to request this feature after reading the note below.
Maximum number of identities that you can verify	10,000 identities per AWS Region. Note An identity is a domain or email address that you use to send email through Amazon SES.	Please contact your AWS Account Manager to discuss your use case.
Maximum number of dedicated IP pools (inclusive of both managed and standard IP pools)	50	No

Note

Before requesting a recipient limit increase per message, please read this blog and be prepared to describe in detail why your use case cannot be met using the default limit of 50 recipients per message or by sending messages to individual recipients. Defining multiple recipients in a message destination can lead to poor observability as well as poor deliverability and should not be used unless your use case specifically requires it.

Quotas related to event publishing

Resource	Default Quota	Adjustable
Maximum number of configuration sets	10,000	No
Maximum length of configuration set name	Configuration set names can contain up to 64 alphanumeric characters. They can also contain hyphens (-) and underscores (_). Names can't contain spaces, accented characters, or any other special characters.	No
Maximum number of event destinations per configuration set	10	No
Maximum number of dimensions per CloudWatch event destination	10	No

Email template quotas

Resource	Default Quota	Adjustable
Maximum number of email templates in each AWS Region	20,000	No
Maximum template size	500 KB	No
Maximum number of replacement values in each template	Unlimited	N/A
Maximum number of recipients for each templated email	50 destinations. A destination is any email address on the "To", "CC", or "BCC" lines. Note The number of destinations you can contact in a single call to the API may be limited by your account's maximum sending rate.	No

Quotas related to email receiving

The following table lists the quotas associated with receiving email through Amazon SES.

Resource	Default Quota	Adjustable
Maximum number of rules per receipt rule set	200	No
Maximum number of actions per receipt rule	10	No
Maximum number of recipients per receipt rule	100	No
Maximum number of receipt rule sets per AWS account	40	No
Maximum number of IP address filters per AWS account	100	No
Maximum email size (including headers) that can be stored in an Amazon S3 bucket	40 MB	No
Maximum email size (including headers) that can be published using an Amazon SNS notification	150 KB	No

General quotas

The following table lists quotas that apply to both sending and receiving email through Amazon SES.

Amazon SES API sending quotas

Resource	Default Quota	Adjustable
Rate at which you can call Amazon SES API actions	All actions (except for SendEmail, SendRawEmail, and SendTemplatedEmail) are throttled at one request per second.	No
MIME parts	500	No