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Amazon SES to Apache Cassandra integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Amazon SES and Apache Cassandra in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Amazon SES and Apache Cassandra

Turn the messages, calls, and events Amazon SES handles into live rows in Apache Cassandra, and write back to trigger new outbound communication, with both sides in sync in seconds.

Engineers reach communications tools like Amazon SES through APIs, which means auth tokens, webhooks, delivery callbacks, and rate limits, all maintained forever and all shaped differently for every tool. The data those tools produce, who was contacted, what was sent, and what came back, would be simple to use if it lived in Apache Cassandra next to everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Sending Events, Messages (SendEmail / SendBulkEmail), Contacts, Contact Lists from Amazon SES into Tables, Partitions and Rows, Materialized Views, Secondary Indexes in Apache Cassandra and keeps both sides in sync in real time. Communication activity lands in the database as ordinary rows you can query and join, and rows your code writes, such as a queued outbound message or an updated contact, flow back into Amazon SES so the tool and the database never disagree.

There is no webhook endpoint to host, no rate limit to babysit, and no nightly export that leaves your services reading yesterday's activity.

Common use cases

  • 01 Stream SES sending events (delivery, bounce, complaint, open, click) from a configuration-set event destination into a warehouse for deliverability reporting.
  • 02 Write bounced and complained addresses from the SES Suppression List back onto CRM and marketing records so other tools stop emailing them.
  • 03 Feed Cassandra change streams into search indexes or caches that must track the source of truth.
  • 04 Consolidate data from multiple keyspaces or clusters into one reporting store.

Common sync patterns

Communication history as database rows

Every message, call, or event Amazon SES records becomes rows in Apache Cassandra, ready to query, join with your own data, and report on without touching the vendor API.

Trigger outbound communication from the database

Write a row to a synced table in Apache Cassandra and Stacksync propagates it into Amazon SES, so your code sends the message, places the call, or schedules the meeting without integration glue.

One contact list across both

Recipients and contacts stay consistent between Amazon SES and Apache Cassandra, so a phone number or email corrected on either side is current the next time either system uses it.

What you can sync between Amazon SES and Apache Cassandra

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Amazon SES objects Apache Cassandra objects How this pairing syncs
Configuration Sets Named send-time rule groups that attach event destinations, IP pools, and suppression options; managed via Create/List ConfigurationSet operations. Counters Increment-only counter columns, usually read-only in syncs. Configuration Sets is specific to Amazon SES and Counters to Apache Cassandra — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Sending Events Per-message send, delivery, bounce, complaint, open, and click events; not on any API, read from a configuration-set event destination (SNS/EventBridge/Firehose). Keyspaces Top-level namespaces with replication settings that scope a sync connection. Sending Events is specific to Amazon SES and Keyspaces to Apache Cassandra — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Messages (SendEmail / SendBulkEmail) Outbound email is produced via SendEmail and SendBulkEmail, accepting raw MIME or a template plus destination list. Send-only; there is no message store to read back. Tables Wide-column tables addressed by partition key, the unit of row-level sync. Messages (SendEmail / SendBulkEmail) is specific to Amazon SES and Tables to Apache Cassandra — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Contacts Subscribers in the contact list with per-topic opt-in state; CRUD via CreateContact/ListContacts/UpdateContact/DeleteContact, each carrying a LastUpdatedTimestamp for polling. Partitions and Rows Records located by partition and clustering keys during reads and upserts. Contacts is specific to Amazon SES and Partitions and Rows to Apache Cassandra — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Contact Lists One list per AWS account, subdivided into Topics that group subscriptions; read and write via CreateContactList and GetContactList. Materialized Views Server-maintained denormalized views; considered experimental and disabled by default in recent releases. Contact Lists is specific to Amazon SES and Materialized Views to Apache Cassandra — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Email Templates Reusable subject/HTML/text templates with replacement variables; synced via CreateEmailTemplate, GetEmailTemplate, ListEmailTemplates, and UpdateEmailTemplate. Secondary Indexes Optional indexes that allow filtered reads outside the partition key. Email Templates is specific to Amazon SES and Secondary Indexes to Apache Cassandra — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Amazon SES and Apache Cassandra

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Amazon SES Apache Cassandra Sub-second propagation

DetectionAmazon SES notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Message events (delivery, bounce, complaint, open, click) are pushed in near real time through configuration-set event destinations.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Apache Cassandra through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Apache Cassandra Amazon SES Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Apache Cassandra are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Commit-log based CDC on tables with CDC enabled, or polling using writetime metadata and timestamp columns.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Amazon SES through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Amazon SES: Every SES API action except SendEmail, SendRawEmail, and SendTemplatedEmail is throttled to 1 request/second per Region; the send rate and 24-hour sending quota are account-specific, adjustable, and per Region.
  • Apache Cassandra: No API quotas; throughput is governed by cluster capacity and consistency-level choices.
What ships with Amazon SES ⇄ Apache Cassandra

Connect Amazon SES and Apache Cassandra for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Amazon SES–Apache Cassandra connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Amazon SES or Apache Cassandra instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Amazon SES or Apache Cassandra data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Amazon SES or Apache Cassandra record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Amazon SES ⇄ Apache Cassandra sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Amazon SES and Apache Cassandra.

How the Amazon SES and Apache Cassandra connectors work

Amazon SES

Integration surface
AWS SES API v2 (REST/JSON over HTTPS) plus an SMTP sending interface
Authentication
AWS IAM credentials (access key + secret) signed with Signature Version 4, or an assumed IAM role via STS; the SMTP interface uses SMTP credentials derived from an IAM user
Change detection
Message events (delivery, bounce, complaint, open, click) are pushed in near real time through configuration-set event destinations (SNS/EventBridge/Firehose); contacts, templates, and suppression entries are polled via List/Get operations
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Every SES API action except SendEmail, SendRawEmail, and SendTemplatedEmail is throttled to 1 request/second per Region; the send rate and 24-hour sending quota are account-specific, adjustable, and per Region

Apache Cassandra

Integration surface
CQL over the Cassandra native binary protocol
Authentication
Database credentials (password authenticator); TLS and role-based grants where configured
Change detection
Commit-log based CDC on tables with CDC enabled, or polling using writetime metadata and timestamp columns
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API quotas; throughput is governed by cluster capacity and consistency-level choices
How it works

How to connect Amazon SES to Apache Cassandra — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Amazon SES and Apache Cassandra with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Amazon SES connected
    Apache Cassandra connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Amazon SES and Apache Cassandra objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Amazon SES ⇄ Apache Cassandra
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Amazon SES Apache Cassandra
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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Alerts

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