email not received from simple email service with production access

I just promoted our ses service out of sandbox. I am sending emails through javascript sdk but I am not getting any emails in the inbox. It seems like I can ONLY receive emails within verified emails. My understanding was that once out of sandbox, I can send to any email and they should be able to receive it. Is there something I am missing? The odd thing is that everything looks fine from sending end but it just does not show up in any of recipients inbox/spam folders. Here is a sample of sending response.

MessageId:'0100018d182e2240-493b2d40-0ac4-4ac1-9dbd-0e46133e53aa-000000' ResponseMetadata:{RequestId: '8610b6a5-30d1-4cbd-b7e6-40d491253831'} RequestId:'8610b6a5-30d1-4cbd-b7e6-40d491253831' [[Prototype]]:Object $response:Response {request: Request, data: {…}, error: null, retryCount: 0, redirectCount: 0, …} [[Prototype]]:Object error:null httpResponse:HttpResponse {statusCode: 200, headers: {…}, body: Buffer(326), streaming: false, stream: IncomingMessage, …} _abortCallback:ƒ callNextListener(err) {\n if (err) {\n error = AWS.util.error(error || new Error(), err);\n if (self._haltHandlersOnError) {\n return doneCallback.call(self, error);\n }\n }\n self.callListeners(listeners, args, doneCallback, error);\n } body:Buffer(326) [60, 83, 101, 110, 100, 69, 109, 97, 105, 108, 82, 101, 115, 112, 111, 110, 115, 101, 32, 120, 109, 108, 110, 115, 61, 34, 104, 116, 116, 112, 58, 47, 47, 115, 101, 115, 46, 97, 109, 97, 122, 111, 110, 97, 119, 115, 46, 99, 111, 109, 47, 100, 111, 99, 47, 50, 48, 49, 48, 45, 49, 50, 45, 48, 49, 47, 34, 62, 10, 32, 32, 60, 83, 101, 110, 100, 69, 109, 97, 105, 108, 82, 101, 115, 117, 108, 116, 62, 10, 32, 32, 32, 32, 60, 77, 101, 115, 115, 97, 103, …] headers:{date: 'Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:08:13 GMT', content-type: 'text/xml', content-length: '326', connection: 'keep-alive', x-amzn-requestid: '8610b6a5-30d1-4cbd-b7e6-40d491253831'} statusCode:200 statusMessage:'OK' stream:IncomingMessage {_readableState: ReadableState, _events: {…}, _eventsCount: 3, _maxListeners: undefined, socket: null, …} streaming:false [[Prototype]]:Object maxRedirects:10 maxRetries:3 redirectCount:0 request:Request {domain: null, service: {…}, operation: 'sendEmail', params: {…}, httpRequest: HttpRequest, …} requestId:'8610b6a5-30d1-4cbd-b7e6-40d491253831' retryCount:0