# Can I use Amazon SES on AWS as newsletter service alongside transactional email sevice in my Ghost Blog?

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**Created:** [April 16, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/can-i-use-amazon-ses-on-aws-as-newsletter-service-alongside-transactional-email-sevice-in-my-ghost-blog/29607 "2022-04-16T17:13:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/can-i-use-amazon-ses-on-aws-as-newsletter-service-alongside-transactional-email-sevice-in-my-ghost-blog/29607/2 "2022-04-16T17:21:16Z")

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Here are a couple resources around this topic:

> **[Why do I have to set up Mailgun for newsletters?](https://ghost.org/docs/faq/mailgun-newsletters/#:~:text=Ghost%20has%20the%20ability%20to,read%20more%20about%20mail%20config)**
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> Sending bulk email to many recipients using SMTP is not supported. In order to send newsletters from Ghost you'll need to setup Bulk Mail with Mailgun.

> [@"need to configure mailgun" but I configured SES already](https://forum.ghost.org/t/need-to-configure-mailgun-but-i-configured-ses-already/29300/4):
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> That’s correct, and while Ghost does have some infrastructure in place to help with supporting multiple bulk email services, there are a lot of dependencies on data (e.g. email analytics) provided by mailgun at the moment

The summary is Ghost’s built-in newsletter functionality depends on Mailgun at the time.

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