How is Amazon SES addressing the problem with infinite pre-approved accounts?

It is extremely difficult to get approval from the support center. But is it possible to get auto-approval knowing which account to send a request to for production? Interesting scheme.

Has this issue been addressed or resolved? Did anyone receive a response from the SES team regarding this?

yeah, i agree with this. it’s pretty frustrating that some accounts seem to get approved while others get denied without any real explanation.

aws doesn’t need to reveal how they detect abuse, but they should at least tell people what they need to do to get approved instead of just saying no.

This is a legitimate concern and one that AWS takes seriously on multiple levels.

AWS is aware that there is fraud involving accounts on a large scale. Obtaining production access with Amazon SES is not as simple as ticking a box; it requires the evaluation of automated risk signals, an analysis of usage patterns, and in many instances a manual review. Nevertheless, no approval system is entirely immune to coordinated abuse, particularly when malicious actors create synthetic identities or use business information that looks legitimate to pass the initial review.

Detection mechanisms that exist on the SES side:

• Sending reputation monitoring — every SES account is tracked against bounce rates, complaint rates, and spam trap hits. Accounts that show patterns of abuse are automatically throttled or suspended, regardless of how they were approved.
• Enforcement actions — AWS can and does retroactively suspend accounts found to violate the Acceptable Use Policy, even after approval.
• IP and identity signals — repeated account creation patterns from the same infrastructure, payment methods, or identity clusters are flagged.

What this means practically: The buyer also faces risks when purchasing pre-approved accounts on Telegram or Discord, since such accounts are frequently already flagged or else share IPs with a bad sending reputation; the delivery rate from a compromised or suspended account is much worse than that from a fresh start.

If you encounter specific sellers or listings, report them directly through the AWS abuse reporting form. AWS investigates reports and uses them to improve detection systems over time.

The general arms race between platform controls and account farming remains a continuous problem for all of the major cloud providers, not something that is specific to SES. Although AWS is still developing its signals, genuine community reporting does in fact play a role in this process.