# AWS and SES **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [August 4, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756 "2016-08-04T22:43:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lead2crm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/lead2crm/32/1634_2.png) [@lead2crm](https://forum.mautic.org/u/lead2crm)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756/1 "2016-08-04T22:43:32Z")
…I imagine you’re talking about Amazon Web Service and I dont know what SES is. I used to be a web developer, but the last time I’ve dealt with servers and writing code was 10 years ago, so I’m very rusty at all of this. I own [www.lead2crm.com](http://www.lead2crm.com) and I provide consulting and development for my clients that use Eloqua, Marketo, HubSpot and [Salesforce.com](http://Salesforce.com). I would like to use [mautic.com](http://mautic.com) for my own use on my customers and partners and then maybe expand into an agency model for SMB; hence, the desire to host this myself on my own domain. How can AWS and SES (whats that?) help. Can you help? –Nick McGirr ---
**Author:** ![lead2crm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/lead2crm/32/1634_2.png) [@lead2crm](https://forum.mautic.org/u/lead2crm)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756/2 "2016-08-04T22:43:32Z")
…I imagine you’re talking about Amazon Web Service and I dont know what SES is. I used to be a web developer, but the last time I’ve dealt with servers and writing code was 10 years ago, so I’m very rusty at all of this. I own [www.lead2crm.com](http://www.lead2crm.com) and I provide consulting and development for my clients that use Eloqua, Marketo, HubSpot and [Salesforce.com](http://Salesforce.com). I would like to use [mautic.com](http://mautic.com) for my own use on my customers and partners and then maybe expand into an agency model for SMB; hence, the desire to host this myself on my own domain. How can AWS and SES (whats that?) help. Can you help? –Nick McGirr ---
**Author:** ![caleb.hurd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@caleb.hurd](https://forum.mautic.org/u/caleb.hurd)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756/3 "2016-08-04T22:51:14Z")
Makes total sense. I’m the lead engineer for The Elf on the Shelf ([elfontheshelf.com](http://elfontheshelf.com)) and I was presented with a challenge in that we have a ton of e-mails to send out, but very infrequently (all during Christmas) and we just needed something inexpensive, straightforward, but robust enough to track the analytics that matter (Open Rate/Click Through Rate etc). Thus, I selected Mautic… and have not been disappointed so far. You are correct that AWS is Amazon Web Services, and SES is a tool within AWS that allows you to send out e-mails… they maintain and white list the servers etc, and just charge you based on volume. I’m not going to lie… if you go down this route, you will find it a little bit tricky… you’ll have to roll your sleeves up and mess with Linux/Ubuntu and deal with Apache, etc. But it’s a very rewarding effort, since at the end of it you can run a free (or almost free) web server, that allows you to send out an unimaginably large quantity of e-mails and track them etc… then you can just click, clone, and set it back up for a client in no time at all. Now that I have 1 working AWS server with Mautic on it, it takes me about 10 minutes to build a completely fresh one! If you’re really interested in trying it out, I can walk you through the first few steps. ---
**Author:** ![caleb.hurd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@caleb.hurd](https://forum.mautic.org/u/caleb.hurd)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756/4 "2016-08-04T22:52:35Z")
If you want to, you can hit me up on Skype at caleb.hurd1 ---
**Author:** ![lead2crm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/lead2crm/32/1634_2.png) [@lead2crm](https://forum.mautic.org/u/lead2crm)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756/5 "2016-08-04T23:37:31Z")
When will you be available? Im not free for another 30 minutes, 9:00pm EST [ceo@lead2crm.com](mailto:ceo@lead2crm.com) ---
**Author:** ![lead2crm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/lead2crm/32/1634_2.png) [@lead2crm](https://forum.mautic.org/u/lead2crm)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756/6 "2016-08-04T23:37:47Z")
Sorry, I only just now got your message ---
**Author:** ![caleb.hurd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@caleb.hurd](https://forum.mautic.org/u/caleb.hurd)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756/7 "2016-08-04T23:41:58Z")
I’ll be online on and off for the next several hours. ---
**Author:** ![lead2crm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/lead2crm/32/1634_2.png) [@lead2crm](https://forum.mautic.org/u/lead2crm)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756/8 "2016-08-04T23:51:18Z")
Cool deal, thanks man! I updated my PHP to the highest level my server will allow (5.6); which may have been the problem from the start. I’ll let you know how it turns out. Im currently reinstalling my entire mautic folder now to ensure no corrupt files. ---
**Author:** ![caleb.hurd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@caleb.hurd](https://forum.mautic.org/u/caleb.hurd)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756/9 "2016-08-04T23:56:42Z")
Sweet - let me know how it all turns out 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lead2crm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/lead2crm/32/1634_2.png) [@lead2crm](https://forum.mautic.org/u/lead2crm)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756/10 "2016-08-05T03:50:00Z")
Now that I updated my PHP to 5.6, it turns out it’s still a few revisions to old. Mautic needs PHP 5.6.19. I contacted my web host and they are going to push PHP 7, but not for another month or two. I can wait until then. I’d still like to catch up and talk with you about AWS and SES and Mautic in general. ---
**Author:** ![cswainhart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/cswainhart/32/353_2.png) [@cswainhart](https://forum.mautic.org/u/cswainhart)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756/11 "2020-05-15T14:09:50Z")
We use AWS SES however we have to use it in the SMTP mode. I can’t seem to get the API to work. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![joeyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/joeyk/32/11164_2.png) [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/aws-and-ses/4756/12 "2020-05-15T19:31:19Z")
Hi, have you tried this? [https://autoize.com/amazon-ses-api-support-in-mautic/](https://autoize.com/amazon-ses-api-support-in-mautic/) Regards: Joey