Amazon SES Statistics by SMTP User

Question

Hi everyone,

I would like to know the amount of sent emails split up by SMTP users, as I will distribute the credentials to different sites, and i want to monitor usage of it. 
At best, I imagine a visualization in a cloudwatch where I can also add alarming when send rates become too high.

I already figured out how to create configuration sets and link it to identities for monitoring, but actually i am not interested in the identities that the emails are sent for, but the users that initiated the sending process.

Thanks a lot for any hints 🙂👍

Accepted Answer

Hi There

Since you mentioned configuration sets, I assume you have your SES events streaming to S3 (take a look at htis blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/analyzing-amazon-ses-event-data-with-aws-analytics-services/)

The logs will capture the `ses:caller-identity` which is the IAM identity of the Amazon SES user who sent the email (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/querying-ses-logs.html)

If you are capturing the logs in S3 and setup Athena per the blog post above, you could easily create a QuickSight dashboard showing the IAM user and the number of emails they sent.  See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/create-a-data-set-athena.html

Amazon SES Statistics by SMTP User

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