Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is an SMTP server to send limited amounts of e-mails per day. At the time of writing this book, it is about 200 e-mails per day, which is more than enough. To set up SES, follow these steps:
On the console page, click on SES under App Services:
On the next page, click on SMTP Settings, and copy the server name and port number to a file as you will need them for the next step:
Click on the Create My SMTP Credentials button and wait until you are redirected to the IAM service (another Amazon service to manage credentials). Click on the Create button:
Copy and paste the username and password fields in the following page because you will need them for the next topic as well: