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Amazon SES to AWS Aurora MySQL integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Amazon SES and AWS Aurora MySQL 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 AWS Aurora MySQL

Turn the messages, calls, and events Amazon SES handles into live rows in AWS Aurora MySQL, 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 AWS Aurora MySQL next to everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Verified Identities, Configuration Sets, Sending Events, Messages (SendEmail / SendBulkEmail) from Amazon SES into Rows, Columns, Primary keys and indexes, Views in AWS Aurora MySQL 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 Push warehouse or CRM audience segments into SES as Contacts using CreateContact or a bulk CreateImportJob (up to 1M contacts per job) to feed marketing sends.
  • 02 Stream SES sending events (delivery, bounce, complaint, open, click) from a configuration-set event destination into a warehouse for deliverability reporting.
  • 03 Stream row changes from Aurora into SaaS tools via binlog CDC instead of scheduled batch exports.
  • 04 Sync a production Aurora cluster with an analytics database while filtering out sensitive columns.

Common sync patterns

React to activity as it happens

Sends, replies, answered calls, or completed meetings arrive in AWS Aurora MySQL as row changes, so triggers, jobs, and services can respond in near real time.

One integration pattern for every channel

Each communications tool looks like tables in the database, so adding email, voice, or messaging is configuration rather than a new codebase.

Communication history as database rows

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

What you can sync between Amazon SES and AWS Aurora MySQL

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 AWS Aurora MySQL 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. Stored procedures and triggers Existing database logic keeps firing on rows written by a sync. Configuration Sets is specific to Amazon SES and Stored procedures and triggers to AWS Aurora MySQL — 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). Databases (schemas) Logical namespaces that scope which tables a sync connection can see. Sending Events is specific to Amazon SES and Databases (schemas) to AWS Aurora MySQL — 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 The primary sync unit; each table maps one-to-one to a table or object in the paired system. Messages (SendEmail / SendBulkEmail) is specific to Amazon SES and Tables to AWS Aurora MySQL — 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. Rows Inserted, updated, and deleted individually or in bulk during two-way syncs. Contacts is specific to Amazon SES and Rows to AWS Aurora MySQL — 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. Columns MySQL data types are mapped to the paired system's field types during schema setup. Contact Lists is specific to Amazon SES and Columns to AWS Aurora MySQL — 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. Primary keys and indexes Used to match rows across systems and keep incremental syncs efficient. Email Templates is specific to Amazon SES and Primary keys and indexes to AWS Aurora MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Amazon SES and AWS Aurora MySQL

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 AWS Aurora MySQL 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 applied to AWS Aurora MySQL as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

AWS Aurora MySQL Amazon SES Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in AWS Aurora MySQL are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Log-based CDC via the MySQL binary log (binlog), with polling on timestamp columns as a fallback.

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.
What ships with Amazon SES ⇄ AWS Aurora MySQL

Connect Amazon SES and AWS Aurora MySQL for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Amazon SES–AWS Aurora MySQL connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Amazon SES or AWS Aurora MySQL instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Amazon SES or AWS Aurora MySQL 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 AWS Aurora MySQL record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Amazon SES ⇄ AWS Aurora MySQL 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 AWS Aurora MySQL.

How the Amazon SES and AWS Aurora MySQL 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

AWS Aurora MySQL

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (MySQL-compatible), standard MySQL drivers and JDBC
Authentication
Database credentials, optionally AWS IAM database authentication, over TLS
Change detection
Log-based CDC via the MySQL binary log (binlog), with polling on timestamp columns as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
How it works

How to connect Amazon SES to AWS Aurora MySQL — 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 AWS Aurora MySQL 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
    AWS Aurora MySQL connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Amazon SES and AWS Aurora MySQL 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 ⇄ AWS Aurora MySQL
    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 AWS Aurora MySQL
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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