Amazon SES Max Send Rate

Question

We're using Amazon SES to send emails, and it says our max send rate is 5 per second.

What happens if we send more than 5 per second? Do they queue or are they rejected?

We have a mailing list that has over 1,000 people on it and they all attempt to send all in one go (and we are approved to use Amazon SES for this purpose).

Here's the code I'm using to send the email:

namespace Amazon
{
    public class Emailer
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Send an email using the Amazon SES service
        /// </summary>
        public static void SendEmail(String from, String To, String Subject, String HTML = null, String emailReplyTo = null, String returnPath = null)
        {
            try
            {
                List<String> to
                    = To
                    .Replace(", ", ",")
                    .Split(',')
                    .ToList();

                var destination = new Destination();
                destination.WithToAddresses(to);

                var subject = new Content();
                subject.WithCharset("UTF-8");
                subject.WithData(Subject);

                var html = new Content();
                html.WithCharset("UTF-8");
                html.WithData(HTML);

                var body = new Body();
                body.WithHtml(html);

                var message = new Message();
                message.WithBody(body);
                message.WithSubject(subject);

                var ses = AWSClientFactory.CreateAmazonSimpleEmailServiceClient("xxx", "xxx");

                var request = new SendEmailRequest();
                request.WithDestination(destination);
                request.WithMessage(message);
                request.WithSource(from);

                if (emailReplyTo != null)
                {
                    List<String> replyto
                        = emailReplyTo
                        .Replace(", ", ",")
                        .Split(',')
                        .ToList();

                    request.WithReplyToAddresses(replyto);
                }

                if (returnPath != null)
                    request.WithReturnPath(returnPath);

                SendEmailResponse response = ses.SendEmail(request);

                SendEmailResult result = response.SendEmailResult;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {

            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

I've since found out the answer is that they are rejected.