Amazon SES Sandbox or AWS Sandbox is a limited environment where new SES (Simple Email Service) users are placed when they sign up for the service. This environment prevents spammers from misusing their service and maintains the platform’s integrity. When your AWS Account is in Amazon SES sandbox, you can send 200 messages daily. But they can only be sent to verified email addresses. Additionally, the sandbox also restricts users from sending emails to more than one recipient at a time.
If your AWS account is new, Amazon will place your account in the Amazon SES sandbox. While your account is in the Sandbox, you can use all of the features of Amazon SES. However, when your account is in the Sandbox, Amazon applies the following restrictions to your account:
- You can only send mail to verified email addresses and domains, or the Amazon SES mailbox simulator.
- You can only send mail from verified email addresses and domains.
- You can send a maximum of 200 messages per 24-hour period.
- You can send a maximum of 1 message per second.
To know more about moving out of Amazon SES Sandbox, please visit: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/request-production-access.html
When an AWS Account is in Sandbox, it will look like this for that specific region:
