Generate credentials to connect to an Amazon SES SMTP endpoint - AWS SDK Code Examples

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Generate credentials to connect to an Amazon SES SMTP endpoint

The following code example shows how to generate credentials to connect to an Amazon SES SMTP endpoint.

Python
SDK for Python (Boto3)
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#!/usr/bin/env python3 import hmac import hashlib import base64 import argparse SMTP_REGIONS = [ "us-east-2", # US East (Ohio) "us-east-1", # US East (N. Virginia) "us-west-2", # US West (Oregon) "ap-south-1", # Asia Pacific (Mumbai) "ap-northeast-2", # Asia Pacific (Seoul) "ap-southeast-1", # Asia Pacific (Singapore) "ap-southeast-2", # Asia Pacific (Sydney) "ap-northeast-1", # Asia Pacific (Tokyo) "ca-central-1", # Canada (Central) "eu-central-1", # Europe (Frankfurt) "eu-west-1", # Europe (Ireland) "eu-west-2", # Europe (London) "eu-south-1", # Europe (Milan) "eu-north-1", # Europe (Stockholm) "sa-east-1", # South America (Sao Paulo) "us-gov-west-1", # AWS GovCloud (US) "us-gov-east-1", # AWS GovCloud (US) ] # These values are required to calculate the signature. Do not change them. DATE = "11111111" SERVICE = "ses" MESSAGE = "SendRawEmail" TERMINAL = "aws4_request" VERSION = 0x04 def sign(key, msg): return hmac.new(key, msg.encode("utf-8"), hashlib.sha256).digest() def calculate_key(secret_access_key, region): if region not in SMTP_REGIONS: raise ValueError(f"The {region} Region doesn't have an SMTP endpoint.") signature = sign(("AWS4" + secret_access_key).encode("utf-8"), DATE) signature = sign(signature, region) signature = sign(signature, SERVICE) signature = sign(signature, TERMINAL) signature = sign(signature, MESSAGE) signature_and_version = bytes([VERSION]) + signature smtp_password = base64.b64encode(signature_and_version) return smtp_password.decode("utf-8") def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description="Convert a Secret Access Key to an SMTP password." ) parser.add_argument("secret", help="The Secret Access Key to convert.") parser.add_argument( "region", help="The AWS Region where the SMTP password will be used.", choices=SMTP_REGIONS, ) args = parser.parse_args() print(calculate_key(args.secret, args.region)) if __name__ == "__main__": main()