Amazon SES (Simple Email Service)

I want to use Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) to send all my bulk emails and triggered emails. We have built our own email system and presently send it via our own server. We need you to assist my existing development team to set up Amazon SES as our mail system. You will have experience with SES. We are familiar with the initial limitations of SES and that the volume of emails we can send is initially capped and that capacity will slowly be increased. Our reason for moving to SES is to ensure higher inbox rates and to see less of our email in the spam folders. We also have 500k contacts. We will continue using our existing server until SES can handle the volume. Your experience and technical expertise of SES will enable us to make this transition quickly. This is mostly about providing your advice.