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A Guide to the New Resource Policies for SMS Origination Identities

I. Introduction AWS End User Messaging has made updates to how it handles SMS origination identities. These changes impact Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) and Amazon Pinpoint, which allow sending SMS messages. The updates aim to provide security, flexibility, and control over SMS messaging for AWS users. For companies and developers using AWS for sending […]

WorkMail uses Okta SSO or PATs

Enable single-sign-on for Amazon WorkMail with IAM Identity Center and Okta Universal Directory

Securing your business email is more critical than ever in today’s digital workplace. To help you protect your users and data in Amazon WorkMail (WorkMail), we regularly introduce security features that give organizations more control and protection for their business email. Thanks to the recently announced integration between WorkMail and AWS Identity and Access Management […]

Visually build telephony applications with AWS Step Functions

Developers face numerous challenges when building telephony applications: managing unpredictable user responses, handling disconnections, processing incorrect inputs, and addressing errors. These challenges extend development cycles and create unstable applications that fail to meet user expectations. This blog demonstrates how Amazon Web Services (AWS) Step Functions, combined with Amazon Chime SDK Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) […]

Multiple SMTP Credentials

Automate the Creation & Rotation of Amazon Simple Email Service SMTP Credentials

Amazon Simple Email Service provides a secure email solution that scales with your business needs. Unfortunately, all email systems, including Amazon SES, remain the primary target for spammers and bad actors due to email’s widespread use and accessibility. While SES offers powerful features for application-based email sending, its SMTP credentials require careful management to prevent unauthorized […]

Update on Support for Amazon Chime

Amazon Chime is a communications service that lets you meet, chat, and place business calls inside and outside your organization, all using a single application. After careful consideration, we have decided to end support for the Amazon Chime service, including Business Calling features, effective February 20, 2026. Amazon Chime will no longer accept new customers […]

WorkMail via MFA or PAT

Improving Security in Amazon WorkMail with MFA

Securing your business email is more critical than ever in today’s digital workplace. To help you protect your users and data in Amazon WorkMail, we have introduced enhanced security features that give organizations more control and protection for their communication platforms. With the integration of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Identity Center, WorkMail now […]

Building AI-powered customer experiences using a modern communications hub

Organizations face integration challenges while adding Generative AI (GenAI) -powered Agentic AI and hyper-personalization capabilities to engage with customers through dynamic and personal experiences. They require scalable and reusable architectures to integrate knowledge bases, business logic, and customer communications without a complete system overhaul, amid disparate engagement solutions they currently operate. A Modern Communications Hub, loosely coupled with core Generative AI services, will establish a composable foundation to build communication-channel-agnostic customer experiences on. Start experimenting with AI-powered customer experience innovations with a quick proof-of-concept that won’t interfere with your present customer engagement setup.

Cyber Security Cloud, Inc. accelerates sales with CloudSmart Insights and Amazon SES

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, effective content curation is essential for businesses to stand out and connect with their target audience. Optimizing customer outreach can be a difficult task. Sales intelligence can help you use data to understand customer behavior, attract prospects with relevant messaging, and focus sales and marketing efforts where they’ll make […]

How to Manage Global Sending of SMS with AWS End User Messaging

AWS End User Messaging has a global SMS reach, of 240 countries and regions around the world, enabling companies of all sizes to send SMS globally. Unlike the process of sending a personal message from your phone to someone in another country, sending Application to Person (A2P) messages, also known as bulk SMS, involves many […]

Amazon SES celebrates 14 years of email sending and deliverability

On this day, 14 years ago, we launched Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES), a highly scalable email sending service that allow businesses and developers to reliably and cost-effectively deliver email from the cloud without having to manage the underlying infrastructure and other operational complexities. Fast forward to 2025: Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) […]