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Amazon Simple Email Service MCP Server

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) API v2, provided by Amazon Web Services, is a powerful and scalable cloud-based email sending service designed for both transactional and marketing communications.

Quick Start Summary

The Amazon Simple Email Service MCP server is a Model Context Protocol bridge that connects AI assistants — including Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code Copilot — to the Amazon Simple Email Service API through natural language. It exposes 10 API endpoints as callable tools, such as BatchGetMetricData, ListConfigurationSets, CreateConfigurationSet, and more. No authentication is required — setup takes approximately 30 seconds. The server uses STDIO transport and can be installed by running npx -y @mcp/amazonaws-com-sesv2. This integration is sourced from the auto Amazon Simple Email Service OpenAPI specification (v2019-09-27) and has a quality score of 46/99 (fair documentation coverage).

10Endpointstools mapped
NoneAuthopen access
46/99Qualityfair
~30 secSetupno auth

Server Details

Category
Cloud Infrastructure
Authentication
None
Endpoints
10 operations
Transport
STDIO
Spec Version
v2019-09-27
Install Command
npx -y @mcp/amazonaws-com-sesv2

Environment Variables

AMAZON_SIMPLE_EMAIL_SERVICE_API_KEY

Example: your_amazon_simple_email_service_api_key

Top Endpoints

POST
/v2/email/metrics/batch

BatchGetMetricData

GET
/v2/email/configuration-sets

ListConfigurationSets

POST
/v2/email/configuration-sets

CreateConfigurationSet

GET
/v2/email/configuration-sets/{ConfigurationSetName}/event-destinations

GetConfigurationSetEventDestinations

POST
/v2/email/configuration-sets/{ConfigurationSetName}/event-destinations

CreateConfigurationSetEventDestination

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📖 Detailed MCP Integration Guide

A technical breakdown of capabilities, agent workflows, and security/configuration best practices.

Capabilities & Use Cases
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) API v2, provided by Amazon Web Services, is a powerful and scalable cloud-based email sending service designed for both transactional and marketing communications. It serves as a robust engine for developers and businesses to reliably deliver email at scale, handling high-volume send rates with built-in deliverability tools. Core capabilities include sending HTML and plain-text emails, managing email templates, tracking open and click rates through configurable event destinations, and maintaining contact lists for targeted campaigns. The API provides granular control over sending reputations and domain verification, making it ideal for enterprise applications such as automated system notifications, password resets, billing statements, and large-scale marketing email broadcasts. Its primary value lies in offloading the complex infrastructure of email servers, reputation management, and compliance from the user, offering a pay-as-you-go model that is both cost-effective and highly reliable for consumer-facing applications.
🤖AI Agent Value
When exposed as tools to an AI coding assistant via the Model Context Protocol, the Amazon SES API v2 unlocks significant productivity gains and automation potential. An AI agent can directly interact with the API to programmatically manage email infrastructure, transforming abstract developer intent into concrete API actions. For instance, an assistant can query existing configuration sets to audit current setups, or create new ones to segment email traffic for different application services. It can dynamically fetch contact lists and their members to verify data integrity or prepare for a campaign. This integration allows the AI to act as a knowledgeable co-pilot, reducing context-switching and manual console navigation, and enabling developers to focus on application logic while the AI handles routine API management tasks through natural language instructions.
💬Example Workflows
Practical workflow examples demonstrate the dynamic tasks an AI agent can perform. A developer could instruct the AI to "check the current event destinations for our production configuration set and update the Amazon SNS endpoint to point to our new monitoring topic," enabling automated infrastructure updates. Another command like "fetch all contacts from the 'newsletter-subscribers' list and generate a summary of the total count" would allow the AI to retrieve and analyze data on demand. The AI could also assist in compliance by being asked to "list all custom verification email templates and flag any that contain outdated sender information." For campaign setup, a developer could request the AI to "create a new configuration set named 'Q4-Promo' with open and click tracking enabled, and then add the event destination for our data lake," chaining multiple API calls into a coherent workflow.
🛡️Security & Auth
Security and authentication are paramount, despite the endpoint listing suggesting none; in practice, Amazon SES API v2 is secured using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Developers must create IAM users or roles with policies that grant only the necessary permissions (principle of least privilege), such as ses:SendEmail or ses:GetConfigurationSet, avoiding overly permissive ses:* actions. The API is accessed using AWS Signature Version 4 signing, requiring an access key ID and secret access key from the IAM entity. Best practices include never hardcoding credentials, using environment variables or secure secret managers, rotating access keys regularly, and enabling AWS CloudTrail to audit all API calls made to the SES service for security monitoring and compliance.

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