amazon-ses

An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: aws, email, security, setup, troubleshooting.

What it does

Guides Amazon SES onboarding for domain-based email sending. Covers identity configuration, production access, an optional first test send, and troubleshooting setup, authentication, or sending failures. Use when setting up SES, resuming incomplete onboarding, or leaving the sandbox. Does not cover inbound email or Mail Manager, SMS/voice, WhatsApp, SNS, Pinpoint, or WorkMail.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill amazon-ses

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
cp -r agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/messaging-and-streaming-skills/amazon-ses ~/.claude/skills/amazon-ses

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Source

Repository

aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/specialized-skills/messaging-and-streaming-skills/amazon-ses/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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