Send WordPress email through Amazon SES
IAM credentials, 19 regional endpoints, $0.10 per 1,000 emails. Lowest-cost transactional transport at volume.
Why pair Amazon SES with NimblyMail
Amazon SES is the price-performance king of transactional email: $0.10 per 1,000 messages on infrastructure that powers a meaningful slice of the internet. NimblyMail tames its rough edges — guided IAM credential setup with least-privilege policies, 19 regional endpoints, a sandbox-exit checklist, and automatic verification of your domain’s DKIM and SPF records.
- Least-privilege IAM. NimblyMail generates the exact ses:SendEmail policy — your AWS root keys never touch WordPress.
- 19 regional endpoints. Send from the region closest to your audience for lower latency and data-residency compliance.
- Sandbox-exit checklist. Step-by-step guidance to leave the SES sandbox and unlock production sending limits.
- $0.10 per 1,000 emails. At volume, SES costs a fraction of hosted providers — pair it with Smart Routing for cheap bulk sends.
Connect Amazon SES in three steps
Create IAM credentials
Follow the in-plugin guide to create a send-only IAM user — copy the Access Key and Secret.
Pick your region
Choose from 19 SES endpoints; NimblyMail configures the correct SMTP host automatically.
Verify and audit
Verify your domain in SES; NimblyMail's audit confirms DKIM CNAMEs, SPF, and MAIL FROM records.
SES uses Easy DKIM — three CNAME records per domain — plus an SPF include for amazonses.com and an optional custom MAIL FROM domain. The audit validates all of them and shows the exact records to publish.
Amazon SES + WordPress, answered
Yes: $0.10 per 1,000 emails, with the first 3,000/month free on many AWS plans. A WooCommerce store sending 50,000 emails a month pays about five dollars.
New SES accounts can only send to verified addresses until AWS approves a production-access request. NimblyMail's checklist walks you through the request and verifies when you've exited.
No. The setup guide produces a least-privilege IAM user in about five minutes of clicking — no AWS experience required, and root credentials are never used.
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