Email sending via AWS SES

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Description

Use the SES API instead of SMTP

Proposal

SMTP requires you to genereate access keys that need to be rotated. If we can make use of the SES API then we could make use of the IAM profile if the system running in AWS.

Links / references

https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ses/

Documentation blurb

Overview

Using the IAM function built into the amazon plateform is a lot more secure then creating and rotating keys.

Use cases

For users running GitLab on AWS platforms

Feature checklist

• Feature assurance
• Documentation
• Added to features.yml