diff --git a/authentik/core/api/users.py b/authentik/core/api/users.py
index 8a817d0b7..3b108f116 100644
--- a/authentik/core/api/users.py
+++ b/authentik/core/api/users.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ from authentik.flows.views.executor import QS_KEY_TOKEN
 from authentik.lib.config import CONFIG
 from authentik.stages.email.models import EmailStage
 from authentik.stages.email.tasks import send_mails
-from authentik.stages.email.utils import TemplateEmailMessage
+from authentik.stages.email.utils.template import TemplateEmailMessage
 from authentik.tenants.models import Tenant
 
 LOGGER = get_logger()
diff --git a/authentik/events/models.py b/authentik/events/models.py
index 82d215fbc..d19041f40 100644
--- a/authentik/events/models.py
+++ b/authentik/events/models.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ from authentik.lib.sentry import SentryIgnoredException
 from authentik.lib.utils.http import get_client_ip, get_http_session
 from authentik.lib.utils.time import timedelta_from_string
 from authentik.policies.models import PolicyBindingModel
-from authentik.stages.email.utils import TemplateEmailMessage
+from authentik.stages.email.utils.template import TemplateEmailMessage
 from authentik.tenants.models import Tenant
 from authentik.tenants.utils import DEFAULT_TENANT
 
diff --git a/authentik/stages/email/management/commands/test_email.py b/authentik/stages/email/management/commands/test_email.py
index 3e1a17fa7..46ff85dad 100644
--- a/authentik/stages/email/management/commands/test_email.py
+++ b/authentik/stages/email/management/commands/test_email.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, no_translations
 
 from authentik.stages.email.models import EmailStage
 from authentik.stages.email.tasks import send_mail
-from authentik.stages.email.utils import TemplateEmailMessage
+from authentik.stages.email.utils.template import TemplateEmailMessage
 
 
 class Command(BaseCommand):
diff --git a/authentik/stages/email/models.py b/authentik/stages/email/models.py
index fcc63868c..4969b6777 100644
--- a/authentik/stages/email/models.py
+++ b/authentik/stages/email/models.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from structlog.stdlib import get_logger
 
 from authentik.flows.models import Stage
 from authentik.lib.config import CONFIG
+from authentik.stages.email.utils.aws import aws_calculate_password
 
 LOGGER = get_logger()
 
@@ -106,11 +107,17 @@ class EmailStage(Stage):
         """Get fully configured Email Backend instance"""
         if self.use_global_settings:
             CONFIG.refresh("email.password")
+            host = CONFIG.get("email.host")
+            password = CONFIG.get("email.password")
+            # Special case for AWS Email passwords
+            if host.endswith("amazonaws.com"):
+                region = host.replace(".amazonaws.com", "").split(".")[-1]
+                password = aws_calculate_password(password, region)
             return self.backend_class(
-                host=CONFIG.get("email.host"),
+                host=host,
                 port=CONFIG.get_int("email.port"),
                 username=CONFIG.get("email.username"),
-                password=CONFIG.get("email.password"),
+                password=password,
                 use_tls=CONFIG.get_bool("email.use_tls", False),
                 use_ssl=CONFIG.get_bool("email.use_ssl", False),
                 timeout=CONFIG.get_int("email.timeout"),
diff --git a/authentik/stages/email/stage.py b/authentik/stages/email/stage.py
index f116f7de0..6712eeed5 100644
--- a/authentik/stages/email/stage.py
+++ b/authentik/stages/email/stage.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from authentik.flows.stage import ChallengeStageView
 from authentik.flows.views.executor import QS_KEY_TOKEN
 from authentik.stages.email.models import EmailStage
 from authentik.stages.email.tasks import send_mails
-from authentik.stages.email.utils import TemplateEmailMessage
+from authentik.stages.email.utils.template import TemplateEmailMessage
 
 PLAN_CONTEXT_EMAIL_SENT = "email_sent"
 PLAN_CONTEXT_EMAIL_OVERRIDE = "email"
diff --git a/authentik/stages/email/utils/__init__.py b/authentik/stages/email/utils/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/authentik/stages/email/utils/aws.py b/authentik/stages/email/utils/aws.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0a0720d39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/authentik/stages/email/utils/aws.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+"""AWS Helpers"""
+import base64
+import hashlib
+import hmac
+
+# These values are required to calculate the signature. Do not change them.
+AWS_DATE = "11111111"
+AWS_SERVICE = "ses"
+AWS_MESSAGE = "SendRawEmail"
+AWS_TERMINAL = "aws4_request"
+AWS_VERSION = 0x04
+
+
+# https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/smtp-credentials.html#smtp-credentials-convert
+
+
+def aws_sign(key: bytes, msg: bytes) -> bytes:
+    """Hmac sign"""
+    return hmac.new(key, msg.encode("utf-8"), hashlib.sha256).digest()
+
+
+def aws_calculate_password(secret_access_key: str, region: str) -> str:
+    """Calculate AWS SMTP password from secret key"""
+    signature = aws_sign(("AWS4" + secret_access_key).encode("utf-8"), AWS_DATE)
+    signature = aws_sign(signature, region)
+    signature = aws_sign(signature, AWS_SERVICE)
+    signature = aws_sign(signature, AWS_TERMINAL)
+    signature = aws_sign(signature, AWS_MESSAGE)
+    signature_and_version = bytes([AWS_VERSION]) + signature
+    smtp_password = base64.b64encode(signature_and_version)
+    return smtp_password.decode("utf-8")
diff --git a/authentik/stages/email/utils.py b/authentik/stages/email/utils/template.py
similarity index 100%
rename from authentik/stages/email/utils.py
rename to authentik/stages/email/utils/template.py