Amazon SES receives mail for 131 of 9,971 popular domains we measured in November 2026. Below: the records it needs and how its customers actually set them.
| Host | Priority |
|---|---|
inbound-smtp.<region>.amazonaws.com | 10 |
Only needed when SES receives mail for the domain; use the region where receiving is set up.
Add include:amazonses.com to the domain's single SPF record, for example:
v=spf1 include:amazonses.com -all51 of 131 Amazon SES customers in our sample (38.9%) have this include in their SPF record.
Easy DKIM: three CNAME records <token>._domainkey.<domain> pointing to <token>.dkim.amazonses.com.
Publish a TXT record at _dmarc.<domain> once SPF and DKIM pass for all mail you send, start with p=none and a reporting address, then move to p=quarantine or p=reject:
v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:dmarc-reports@<domain>Official documentation: MX · SPF · DKIM · DMARC
Provider site: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/
131 customer domains in the sample (accent bars) compared with all 9,971 measured domains (grey bars).
The highest-ranked domains in the sample whose MX records point to Amazon SES.
Check one yourself:
Customer-specific parts replaced by <domain> and digits by <n>.
| MX host pattern | Domains |
|---|---|
inbound-smtp.us-east-<n>.amazonaws.com | 75 |
inbound-smtp.us-west-<n>.amazonaws.com | 28 |
inbound-smtp.eu-west-<n>.amazonaws.com | 15 |
inbound-smtp.ap-northeast-<n>.amazonaws.com | 3 |
feedback-smtp.eu-west-<n>.amazonses.com | 3 |
feedback-smtp.us-east-<n>.amazonses.com | 3 |
feedback-smtp.ap-northeast-<n>.amazonses.com | 1 |
inbound-smtp.eu-central-<n>.amazonaws.com | 1 |
Source: our own scan of November 2026 (2026-11-11), 9,971 of the top 10,000 domains of the Tranco list Y895G that answered in DNS. Method and data.