The Professional Email Builder for AWS SES Pipelines

Bridge the gap between product design systems and raw Amazon SES email templates. Design modular, responsive emails in Alpaco and compile them directly into Amazon SES Template definitions via API.

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ARCHITECTURAL COEXISTENCE

AWS SES Scale Meets Alpaco Production

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) powers billions of mission-critical transactional and marketing messages with unparalleled cost efficiency and delivery scale. However, SES provides no visual template editor, leaving developers burdened with hardcoding fragile HTML in JSON payload strings.

Alpaco provides the dedicated upstream email production studio that engineering and marketing teams have both needed. Designers establish modular design systems and responsive grid layouts. Marketing teams craft emails with complete creative freedom while Alpaco compiles bulletproof, Outlook-tested code directly into SES template definitions.

Creative Freedom with Design System Certainty

Template engineers have complete creative freedom to build custom HTML and Handlebars / API Payload modules during setup. Once in the Email Design System, daily campaign creators are fully alleviated from HTML — assembling layouts with drag-and-drop ease and 100% brand certainty.

Optimized for Amazon SES Delivery

Generate production-grade, Outlook-tested HTML and matching plain text email templates compiled directly into Amazon SES Template definitions for your engineering and notification pipelines.

Zero Data Exposure

Alpaco operates strictly upstream in the template design layer. No access to customer PII, subscriber lists, or production databases — your AWS infrastructure and user data remain untouched.

Alpaco Hub Alpaco Platform
❖ Design System Setup HTML / HANDLEBARS / API PAYLOAD
▦ Modular Drag & Drop NO-CODE
▣ Dynamic Personalization CERTAINTY
AWS SES Amazon SES
✔ SES Template Store COMPILED
📄 Compiled HTML & Text SYNCED
⚡ High-Volume API Sends FORMAT SAFE
Compiling
// 1. VISUAL SETTINGS
{{name}} Fallback: 'Customer'
Show Details If: {{#if orderConfirmed}}
orderId
// 2. PRODUCTION AWS SES TEMPLATE DEFINITION
  {
    "TemplateName": "OrderConfirmation_V2",
    "SubjectPart": "Your Order #{{orderId}} is Confirmed",
    "HtmlPart": "<table role='presentation'><h2>Hello {{name}}</h2></table>"
  }
ENGINEERING INTEGRITY

Bulletproof Code Optimized for AWS SES

Alpaco compiles clean, responsive HTML with corresponding plain text versions, formatting them precisely for Amazon SES CreateTemplate and UpdateTemplate API calls.

Full Personalization Support

Native compatibility with SES Handlebars replacement tags and dynamic JSON data dictionaries.

Automated Multi-Part Output

Generates both minified HTML and plain text email bodies simultaneously for optimal deliverability.

Rapid Iterations

Update templates in Alpaco and push changes to SES via API without touching deployment pipelines.

HOW IT WORKS

From Setup to 1-Click Sync in 4 Steps

Connect once, design with brand guardrails in Alpaco, and sync directly into AWS SES.

01

Connect AWS SES via IAM Credentials

One-Time Setup

Link your Alpaco workspace to your AWS SES region to enable direct, automated template synchronization via API.

Prerequisites: AWS IAM Access Key ID and Secret Access Key with ses:CreateTemplate and ses:UpdateTemplate permissions, your target AWS Region (e.g. us-east-1), and a 1-time assisted setup with Alpaco Customer Success. View AWS SES docs →
02

Build Your Master Templates

Design brand-governed templates in Alpaco with modular blocks, Outlook-safe styling, and dynamic SES Handlebars replacement tags (e.g., {{name}}).

03

Draft & QA in the Lobby

Product teams and developers assemble transactional layouts using locked brand modules, previewing dynamic Handlebars replacement data with built-in QA before deployment.

04

1-Click Direct Export to Amazon SES

Push templates directly to your Amazon SES Template Store via the SES API—immediately ready for SendTemplatedEmail calls across your services.

BENEFITS

Built for High-Velocity AWS SES Campaigns

Eliminate fragile copy-paste workflows and empower your marketing and CRM teams with brand-locked agility.

Email Design Systems

Brand-locked modular components

Clean SES Compilation

HTML + text template payloads

Direct API Sync

Amazon SES Template store

Replacement Data Safe

Handlebars & fallback validation

Zero Engineering Friction

No hardcoded HTML strings

Zero Copy-Paste Friction

No broken HTML or syntax errors

Stop hardcoding HTML strings. Start scaling with Alpaco.

See how leading engineering and product teams design modular, brand-locked email systems and sync them directly to AWS SES.