There are quite a few steps involved with configuring Oracle running in RDS to use Simple Email Service (SES) for sending email over SMTP. Here are a few resources that Cornell AWS users have found useful:
- Provisioning Oracle Wallets and Accessing SSL/TLSBased Endpoints on Amazon RDS for Oracle (PDF)
- AWS Discussion Forum: Trouble with Provisioning Oracle Wallets and Accessing SSL
Configuring Oracle RDS for sending emails using Simple Email Service (SES)
The approach in this last article didn't work exactly as is from our experience, but it may still have useful information for Cornell folks.