How Not To Send Transactional Emails

Disclaimer: this is the anti-aws guide to sending emails

The problem

You have a system and you need to send emails to your customers which happen upon certain events, for example a new user signs up and you send him a welcome email. At the same time you are using aws and to ensure the least problems you decided to use as much as much possible of what Jeff is selling. Based on that you decided to use SES (simple email service) to send your emails (far from simple if you ask me, but that’s how they market it).