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# Amazon SES Sending Events

> Send Amazon SES delivery, bounce, complaint, reject, open, and click engagement events to Bronto so you can monitor email deliverability and investigate failures.

Amazon SES emits sending-activity events — deliveries, bounces, complaints, rejects, rendering failures, opens, and clicks — through a configurable event destination on each configuration set. SES supports CloudWatch, Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon SNS, EventBridge, and Pinpoint as event destinations.

## Recommended method

[**Kinesis Firehose**](./aws-firehose) — add a **Kinesis Data Firehose event destination** to the configuration set and point it at Bronto. This delivers the full event JSON — `mail{}`, the event-specific object (`delivery{}`, `bounce{}`, `open{}`, `click{}`, …), and nested `tags{}` — which Bronto parses and flattens into searchable fields automatically.

<Note>
  SES's **CloudWatch** event destination publishes CloudWatch **metrics** (counts of sends, bounces, etc.), not a log group containing the event bodies. To capture the event JSON itself, use the Firehose event destination.
</Note>

## Alternatives

For metric-level monitoring only, the configuration set can publish to a CloudWatch event destination, but this does not produce the per-event JSON that Bronto ingests.

See [Ingesting AWS Data into Bronto](./aws-overview) for the full service-to-method mapping.

## References

* [Amazon SES — monitor sending activity](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/monitor-sending-activity.html)