AWS Certified Security – Specialty — Question 30

A Systems Engineer has been tasked with configuring outbound mail through Simple Email Service (SES) and requires compliance with current TLS standards.
The mail application should be configured to connect to which of the following endpoints and corresponding ports?

Answer options

• A. email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com over port 8080
• B. email-pop3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com over port 995
• C. email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com over port 587
• D. email-imap.us-east-1.amazonaws.com over port 993

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because the email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com endpoint on port 587 supports TLS for secure email transmission. The other options either use incorrect ports for SMTP or are meant for different protocols like POP3 or IMAP, which are not suitable for outbound mail configuration through SES.