Sending Email from EC2

A common question about moving applications to EC2 is what to do about sending email. Web applications occasionally send email, to their administrators (“Help! I’m running out of disk space!”) or to their users (“Here is your forgotten password”), and this needs to work when the application is hosted within EC2 also. Unfortunately, it is not simple to send email reliably from within the cloud. Here are some tips about sending reliable email from EC2 instances. ...

July 9, 2009 · 13 min · shlomo