From [0]:
> If your bounce rate is 5% or greater, we'll place your account under review.
To sum it up, try to keep track of bounced e-mails by using the SES notifications [1].
[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/e-faq....
[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/monito...
If you're using the SNS notifications [1], these notifications will be JSON objects [2]; you can then use a notification to extract the information needed, e.g. a bouncing e-mail address to be stored in a local registry in case of a bounce notification.
[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/mailbo...
[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/notifi...
[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/notifi...
Really interested to learn about the SES simulator address though (posted as a reply on this thread) - don't know how we missed that, and it would have really helped with early testing when we were developing the email queueing system on our app.