Creating your AWS Credentials
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Even if you already have an AWS account you still need to Sign Up to Amazon SES. Go to the and follow the On Screen Instructions.
Once you are done you can continue with the following steps.
1. Create a permissions policy for Mailblast. We only need access to AWS SES and AWS SNS for email delivery and tracking.
Select the JSON Tab and paste in the following:
Enter mailblast-policy as the name and enter in the above policy in the Policy Document.
****This gives Mailblast the required permissions to send and track emails on your behalf. Click on the Create Policy button when done.
2. Create new user for Mailblast.
Check the Programmatic access option click Next: Permissions.
You now need to attach the permission policy you created earlier to your new user. Select mailblast-policy and click Next: Review.
3. Configuring Mailblast with your new credentials
Go to the page:
You now need to a create a new user. Head over to the the and create a new user called mailblast-user.
Click Show to reveal the credentials and Copy the Access key ID and Secret access key over into the Mailblast page.
