Building a Serverless Web Mailer with AWS
Learn how to build a secure, scalable serverless web mailer using AWS SAM, Lambda, and Amazon SES. This guide covers dynamic email processing, CORS configuration, and API Gateway throttling to protect your application from unauthorized access and abuse.
The ability to receive, process, and send emails based on user input is a cornerstone of many web applications. From “Contact Us” forms to feedback tools, these seemingly simple features provide a direct line of communication between businesses and their users. But building them can quickly become a tangle of backend logic, infrastructure management, and scaling concerns.
Enter Dynamic Email SES, a serverless solution I’ve built to simplify this process. In this post, I’ll walk you through the thinking behind the project, the architecture, and how it works—all while keeping it approachable for developers of any level.
