I’ve been using AWS SES (Simple Email Service) for a long time. I jumped through all the hoops to get production approval. I’ve spent time setting it up and configuring it. I monitor the reputation metrics religiously. But, with over 50 identities configured it’s hard to keep track of what identity might be causing reputation issues at the account level. I spent time with AI coming up with a way to monitor this at the identity level so that I get near real time for failed sends or bounces.
The goal here is to avoid costly Cloudwatch Alarms. Utilizes nearly free infrastructure to monitor and identify poorly performing identities so that my account reputation can stay green. At the same time, i’m documenting a suppression list that could be utilized cross applications to avoid failed sendings in the future.
In this pattern, when an email is sent the event is passed into AWS SNS. You can bolt on a separate notifier if required. At the same time, the information will be logged into a DynamoDB table.
Separately, we have an AWS EventBridge that will run a daily report. It will show you which identities have sent mail as well as whether or not they had any failures or bounces.
I packaged this all up as a Terraform module so that you can implement it on your own AWS account.
If you have any feedback or comments feel free to reach out!
GitHub Repository: https://github.com/avansledright/terraform-module-ses-monitoring
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