AWS Messaging & Targeting Blog

With Amazon Pinpoint, you can use Sender IDs to send text messages to recipients in various countries around the world. A Sender ID is a short, alphanumeric identifier (such as “AMAZON”) that appears on a recipient’s device when they receive a message from you. A Sender ID is one type of origination identity—that is, an […]

Unexpected situations that require immediate attention can occur in any industry. Part of resolving these incidents is the notifications’ delivery. For example, utility companies that have installed gas sensors need to notify immediately the available engineer if a leak occurs. The goal of an incident management process is to restore a normal service operation as […]

Organizations across industries and verticals have user bases spread around the globe. Amazon Pinpoint enables them to send SMS messages to a global audience through a single API endpoint, and the messages are routed to destination countries by the service. Amazon Pinpoint utilizes downstream SMS providers to deliver the messages and these SMS providers offer […]

Many businesses today struggle to align out-of-product messaging through channels such as email and SMS, with in-product messaging shown when a users is within a mobile or web application. Customers will present one message to a user through a targeted email, but once a user visits the application they are presented with different messaging. This […]

Introduction: In an ideal world of email deliverability, email is sent on a regular cadence to a normalized lists of subscribers and recipient email addresses with no major changes in pattern. Typically the volume, list members and content are relatively the same and mailbox providers (such as Gmail) begin to expect that schedule and those […]

In this post, we will walk through using Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon Quicksight to create customizable messaging campaign reports. Amazon Pinpoint is a flexible and scalable outbound and inbound marketing communications service that allows customers to connect with users over channels like email, SMS, push, or voice. Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine […]

Introduction Many companies have multiple departments using different campaigns in the same AWS account on Amazon Pinpoint and need to split costs at the end of each month between the owners of each campaign. To do this, companies need an easy way to find how much each campaign has generated of cost, since the Amazon […]

Email as we know it turns 50 years old this month (October 2021). The first email sent over a network — the beginning of email as we use it today — was sent in October 1971, by MIT graduate Ray Tomlinson (April 23, 1941–March 5, 2016). Tomlinson was the first to use the @ symbol […]

Integrating emails into an automated workflow for automated processing can be challenging. Traditionally, applications have had to use the POP protocol to connect to mail servers and poll for emails to arrive in a mailbox and then process the messages inline and perform actions on the message. This can be an inefficient mechanism and prone […]

Sometimes customers want to use their email domain with Amazon Simples Email Service (Amazon SES) across multiple accounts, or the same account but across multiple regions. For example, AnyCompany is an insurance company with marketing and operations business units. The operations department sends transactional emails every time customers perform insurance simulations. The marketing department sends […]