Send Test Email fails with Email address is not verified

Question

I want to use Amazon\'s Simple Email Service to send emails.

I verified my domain as well as the email address I want to send from.

For both it says ve

Answer 1

If the email is already verified and you're out of the SES Sandbox, check that you've the correct AWS region for the SMTP server. I was trying to connect to email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com when my SMTP credential was for the email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com server.