generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/latest/developerguide/quotas.html,
  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sms-voice/latest/userguide/sandbox.html,
  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/latest/apireference/apps-application-id-channels-apns_sandbox.html
model: account-mode-sandbox
model_note: >-
  Amazon Pinpoint has no separate test host, no test-vs-live key prefix and no fixture/trigger
  tooling. Sandbox is an ACCOUNT STATE on the sending channel, enforced per region: a new account
  starts restricted and is released to production by an AWS Support case. There are no magic test
  values - you verify your own real addresses and send to those. Nothing below is invented; where
  a sandbox concept simply does not exist for Pinpoint it is recorded as absent.
key_separation:
  test_keys: false
  note: >-
    Authentication is AWS SigV4 with IAM credentials. The same credentials call sandbox and
    production; the difference is the account's channel state, not the key.
sandboxes:
  - channel: email
    scope: per AWS region, shared with Amazon SES in the same region
    restrictions:
      - Recipient email addresses or domains must be verified while in the sandbox.
      - 200 emails per 24-hour period.
      - 1 email per second.
      - All sending identities must be verified in sandbox and in production.
    exit: Request production access; the SES and Pinpoint sending quota is shared per region.
    source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/latest/developerguide/quotas.html
  - channel: sms-mms
    operated_by: AWS End User Messaging SMS
    restrictions:
      - Monthly SMS spending limit of $1.00 USD.
      - Monthly MMS spending limit of $1.00 USD.
      - Send only to verified destination phone numbers; up to 10 verified numbers.
      - Destination-country rules still apply (for example a US number must be requested and registered first).
      - A verification code is sent to prove ownership; the first verification code per number is free of charge.
      - A verified destination number cannot be deleted until 24 hours after it was added.
    exit: >-
      AWS Support case at
      https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/home#/case/create?issueType=service-limit-increase -
      Account and Billing / Service Quotas / "AWS End User Messaging SMS (Pinpoint)" / General Limits.
      One case per region.
    source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sms-voice/latest/userguide/sandbox.html
  - channel: voice
    operated_by: AWS End User Messaging Voice
    restrictions:
      - New accounts start in the voice sandbox with the same verified-destination model as SMS.
    exit: Same AWS Support case path, category "AWS End User Messaging Voice (Pinpoint)".
    source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sms-voice/latest/userguide/sandbox.html
  - channel: push-apns
    kind: platform-sandbox-passthrough
    restrictions:
      - >-
        Apple's own APNs sandbox is exposed as first-class Pinpoint channels rather than a Pinpoint
        test mode - APNSSandboxChannel and APNSVoIPSandboxChannel, each with its own
        Update/Get/Delete operations. Messages sent to those channels reach APNs sandbox device
        tokens, which is Apple's separation, not AWS's.
    operations:
      - UpdateApnsSandboxChannel
      - GetApnsSandboxChannel
      - DeleteApnsSandboxChannel
      - UpdateApnsVoipSandboxChannel
      - GetApnsVoipSandboxChannel
      - DeleteApnsVoipSandboxChannel
    source: openapi/amazon-pinpoint-apps-api-openapi.yml
test_values:
  cards: none
  bank_accounts: none
  magic_identifiers: none
  note: >-
    Pinpoint publishes no magic test addresses or reserved test numbers (unlike, for example,
    Twilio's +1500555xxxx range). Testing uses your own verified identities.
test_clock: false
fixtures: false
console:
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/
  note: >-
    The Pinpoint console is the interactive surface, but it becomes unavailable on 2026-10-30 with
    the rest of the service.