@aws-sdk/client-ses

What is @aws-sdk/client-ses?

@aws-sdk/client-ses is an AWS SDK for JavaScript package that allows you to interact with the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). SES is a cloud-based email sending service designed to help digital marketers and application developers send marketing, notification, and transactional emails. The package provides a variety of functionalities to manage email sending, email receiving, and email analytics.

What are @aws-sdk/client-ses's main functionalities?

Send Email

This feature allows you to send an email using Amazon SES. The code sample demonstrates how to configure the SES client, set up the email parameters, and send the email.

const { SESClient, SendEmailCommand } = require('@aws-sdk/client-ses');

const client = new SESClient({ region: 'us-east-1' });

const params = {
  Destination: {
    ToAddresses: ['[e-mail]'],
  },
  Message: {
    Body: {
      Text: { Data: 'Hello, this is a test email.' },
    },
    Subject: { Data: 'Test Email' },
  },
  Source: '[e-mail]',
};

const run = async () => {
  try {
    const data = await client.send(new SendEmailCommand(params));
    console.log('Email sent successfully:', data);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('Error sending email:', err);
  }
};

run();

Verify Email Identity

This feature allows you to verify an email address with Amazon SES. The code sample demonstrates how to initiate the email verification process.

const { SESClient, VerifyEmailIdentityCommand } = require('@aws-sdk/client-ses');

const client = new SESClient({ region: 'us-east-1' });

const params = {
  EmailAddress: '[e-mail]',
};

const run = async () => {
  try {
    const data = await client.send(new VerifyEmailIdentityCommand(params));
    console.log('Email identity verification initiated:', data);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('Error verifying email identity:', err);
  }
};

run();

List Verified Email Addresses

This feature allows you to list all email addresses that have been verified with Amazon SES. The code sample demonstrates how to retrieve and display the list of verified email addresses.

const { SESClient, ListVerifiedEmailAddressesCommand } = require('@aws-sdk/client-ses');

const client = new SESClient({ region: 'us-east-1' });

const run = async () => {
  try {
    const data = await client.send(new ListVerifiedEmailAddressesCommand({}));
    console.log('Verified email addresses:', data.VerifiedEmailAddresses);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('Error listing verified email addresses:', err);
  }
};

run();

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Changelog

3.899.0 (2025-09-29)

Bug Fixes

• lib-storage: respect user-provided partSize option for Upload (#7381) (31fc996)

Features

• client-bedrock-runtime: New stop reason for Converse and ConverseStream (323c12b)
• client-bedrock: Release for fixing GetFoundationModel API behavior. Imported and custom models have their own exclusive API and GetFM should not accept those ARNS as input (e8e4a5d)
• client-imagebuilder: This release introduces several new features and improvements to enhance pipeline management, logging, and resource configuration. (3659afe)
• client-vpc-lattice: Adds support for specifying the number of IPv4 addresses in each ENI for the resource gateway for VPC Lattice. (7baea90)
• clients: update client endpoints as of 2025-09-29 (341145b)