Setting up Amazon SES for a Lightsail Based Application

2026-09-22T03:43:47+00:00

On this article, you will learn how you can send emails from AWS Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) on applications hosted in AWS Lightsail, a virtual private server. You will learn how to verify a sending domain, connect your application, and prepare to send password resets, notifications, and newsletters. Prepare your domain and application This article assumes that you already have a working application within the Lightsail instance, that is capable of handling and sending emails and ready to support Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the standard used here to submit messages to SES. The Tutorials Dojo Amazon Lightsail cheat [...]