# Does AWS SES API work with watcher?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-aws-ses-api-work-with-watcher/151810
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [October 10, 2018, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-aws-ses-api-work-with-watcher/151810 "2018-10-10T10:02:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Aftab\_Ali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aftab_Ali)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-aws-ses-api-work-with-watcher/151810/1 "2018-10-10T10:02:14Z")
Dear Team,
I am a big fan of elk and your support team, but I have AWS SES email service so that is possible to configure email notification service via only AWS SES, please reply ASAP.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-aws-ses-api-work-with-watcher/151810/2 "2018-10-10T10:10:22Z")
please be aware that this forum does not come with any SLA, ASAP incuded in that list 🙂
You can check the alerting documentation on how to configure SES with alerting. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.4/actions-email.html#amazon-ses](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.4/actions-email.html#amazon-ses)
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### Author:  [@Aftab\_Ali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aftab_Ali)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-aws-ses-api-work-with-watcher/151810/3 "2018-10-11T05:46:35Z")
Dear [Alexander Reelsen]
Thanks for the reply, I am already using SMTP to get a notification but I want to use aws ses API using key's, I don't want to use SMTP details, Please suggest me, how to configure AWS SES API to get notification using Watcher.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-aws-ses-api-work-with-watcher/151810/4 "2018-10-11T11:40:48Z")
I do not understand what you mean with using keys. Can you clarify? Directly using the API is not supported if you are referring to that. Can you clarify why using SMTP is not an option?
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### Author:  [@Aftab\_Ali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aftab_Ali)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2018, 5:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-aws-ses-api-work-with-watcher/151810/5 "2018-10-13T05:45:31Z")
[Alexander Reelsen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
I have configured AWS SES SMTP configuration in elasticsearch/yml and i saved
xpack.notification.email.account:
ses\_account:
smtp:
auth: true
starttls.enable: true
starttls.required: true
host: [email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com](http://email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com)
port: 587
user: Access Key ID
password: Secret access key
I saved user namer "Access Key ID" and in Password, I saved "Secret access key"
It is now working, please help me and other things I have another way to generate SMTP Details for [https://docs.bitnami.com/bch/how-to/use-ses/](https://docs.bitnami.com/bch/how-to/use-ses/)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2018, 5:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-aws-ses-api-work-with-watcher/151810/6 "2018-11-10T05:45:33Z")
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