Amazon SES is the go-to transactional email service for teams already in the AWS ecosystem. But testing SES emails end-to-end in CI is notoriously painful — IAM permissions, sandbox restrictions, and no easy way to catch sent emails programmatically.
This guide shows the complete setup for testing Amazon SES email flows in Playwright using ZeroDrop — no Docker, no shared inboxes, no mocking.
The app we're testing
A Next.js API route that sends a verification email via Amazon SES:
// app/api/auth/signup/route.ts
