Setting up Amazon Simple Email Service
Before you start using Amazon SES, you must complete the following tasks.
Sign up for AWS
If you do not have an AWS account, complete the following steps to create one.
To sign up for an AWS account
Follow the online instructions.
Part of the sign-up procedure involves receiving a phone call and entering a verification code on the phone keypad.
When you sign up for an AWS account, an AWS account root user is created. The root user has access to all AWS services and resources in the account. As a security best practice, assign administrative access to an administrative user, and use only the root user to perform tasks that require root user access.
Get your AWS access keys
After you've signed up for AWS, you must obtain your AWS access keys to access Amazon SES
through the Amazon SES API, whether by the Query (HTTPS) interface directly or indirectly through an
AWS SDK
For more information about the types of security keys that you can use in Amazon SES, see Types of Amazon SES credentials. For information about obtaining AWS access keys, see AWS security credentials in the AWS General Reference.
Download an AWS SDK
To call the Amazon SES API without having to handle low-level details like assembling raw HTTP
requests, you can use an AWS SDK. The AWS SDKs provide functions and data types that
encapsulate the functionality of Amazon SES and other AWS services. To download an AWS SDK, go to
SDKs
Verify your email address
Before you can send email from your email address through Amazon SES, you must show Amazon SES that you own the email address by verifying it. For instructions, see Creating an email address identity.