# Automatically pausing email sending
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To protect your sender reputation, you can temporarily pause email sending for messages sent using specific configuration sets, or for all messages sent from your Amazon SES account in a specific AWS Region.

By using Amazon CloudWatch and Lambda, you can create a solution that automatically pauses your email sending when your reputation metrics (such as bounce rate or complaint rate) exceed certain thresholds. This topic contains procedures for setting up this solution.

**Topics**
+ [Automatically pausing email sending for your entire Amazon SES account](monitoring-sender-reputation-pausing-account.md)
+ [Automatically pausing email sending for a configuration set](monitoring-sender-reputation-pausing-configuration-set.md)