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Amazon SES

You can use the Amazon SES provider to send transactional emails to your customers using the Novu Platform with a single API to create multi-channel experiences.

Getting Started​

To use the Amazon SES provider, you will need to create a SES account and add your credentials to the Amazon SES integration on the Novu platform.

How to set up SES in AWS?​

  • Either use root aws account or create a new IAM account with appropriate permission policies.
  • Create new access key and save generated ACCESS_KEY_ID and ACCESS_SECRET_KEY carefully
  • Choose Amazon Simple Email Service.
  • Create new identity.
  • Either choose domain or email.
  • Verify your domain (by addding few DNS records as mentioned in SES instructions) or email (AWS sends a verification email to your email).
  • Verify recipient email also by creating new email identity type [only in sandbox mode].
  • Test if your SES is setup correctly using test email feature.

Create a SES integration with Novu​

  • Visit the Integrations page on Novu.
  • Locate Amazon SES and click on the Connect button.
  • Enter previously saved ACCESS_KEY_ID and ACCESS_SECRET_KEY.
  • Fill the From email address field using the authenticated sender email id in previous step.
  • Enter region and Sender name also.
  • Click on the Disabled button and mark as Active.
  • Click on the Connect button.
  • You should now be able to send notifications using Amazon SES in Novu.

FAQ​

Trigger from novu is successful but subscriber is not receiving email.

Possible reasons:-

  • You have not verified subscriber's email address in SES (if you are in sandbox environment).
  • Your daily sending limit has reached (if you are in sandbox environment).
  • You have entered wrong aws region in integration form.