Official update watch

Policy and platform changes that affect email investigations.

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Source published May 29, 2026
Amazon SES

Amazon SES introduces inbox-placement metrics and blocklist monitoring

SES added sampled inbox and spam placement estimates, pre-send content tests, and monitoring for public domain and IP blocklists.

Source published December 5, 2025
Amazon SESAmazon Q

Amazon Q can analyze SES configuration and sending patterns

AWS says Amazon Q can evaluate SES resource configuration and usage patterns to answer operational and deliverability questions.

Source published August 1, 2025
Amazon SES

Amazon SES adds tenant isolation and automated reputation policies

SES tenants can isolate identities, configuration sets and templates. Automated policies can pause a tenant when reputation findings are detected.

Source published April 2, 2025
Microsoft Outlook.com

Outlook.com sets authentication requirements for high-volume senders

For domains sending more than 5,000 messages per day to Outlook.com consumer services, Microsoft requires SPF and DKIM to pass, DMARC to be present, and DMARC alignment through SPF or DKIM.

Source published February 18, 2025
Google WorkspaceGmail

Gmail data loss prevention becomes generally available

Workspace administrators can apply data-protection rules to Gmail body content, attachments, headers and subjects, with audit, warning or blocking actions depending on configuration.