I don't see Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) settings container

Question

Hi, 
I'm newbie in AWS and I would like to send newsletter via Awazon SES service.
I'm following this documentation : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/smtp-credentials.html and I completed the verification of a domain.
Now I blocked on point number 3 (In the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) settings container, choose Create SMTP Credentials in the lower-left corner - the IAM console will open) because I don't see this cointainer.
I'm logged in as root and not IAM user. I created it and neither logged as IAM user I don't see any SMTP area.
Whato I'm doing wrong?
How to create iam:ListUsers, iam:CreateUser, iam:CreateAccessKey, and iam:PutUserPolicy ?
Thank you very much

Accepted Answer

I have verified that I too do not see SMTP credential option from within the iam console but when I go to "Create SMTP Credentials" from the SES console I am prompted to provide a username to create an iam user and then I can download the SMTP credentials.

The smtp credential is conversion from the secret access key so can be converted. The [doc](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/smtp-credentials.html#smtp-credentials-convert) has some sample python code. In the past I used [terraform](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/iam_access_key#ses_smtp_password_v4) to generate my iam user get the smtp credentials and store them in secrets manager for my application to use.

Answer

Thank you very much Peter,
but I understood why I didn't see SMTP credentials: because in Milan region SMTP is not allowed yet.
Thanks for support. 
Regards

I don't see Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) settings container

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