diff --git a/puppet/kandra/manifests/profile/prometheus_server.pp b/puppet/kandra/manifests/profile/prometheus_server.pp
index 3f36ecc732..2b785e4db4 100644
--- a/puppet/kandra/manifests/profile/prometheus_server.pp
+++ b/puppet/kandra/manifests/profile/prometheus_server.pp
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ class kandra::profile::prometheus_server inherits kandra::profile::base {
   # Ditto the Akamai logs
   include kandra::prometheus::akamai
 
+  # The SES log ETL (writing to S3) runs on vector
+  include kandra::ses_logs
+
   # Export prometheus stats to status.zulip.com
   include kandra::statuspage
 
diff --git a/puppet/kandra/manifests/ses_logs.pp b/puppet/kandra/manifests/ses_logs.pp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..29ec511eb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/puppet/kandra/manifests/ses_logs.pp
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+class kandra::ses_logs {
+  include kandra::vector
+
+  $ses_logs_sqs_url = zulipsecret('secrets', 'ses_logs_sqs_url', '')
+  $ses_logs_s3_bucket = zulipsecret('secrets', 'ses_logs_s3_bucket', '')
+
+  concat::fragment { 'vector_ses_logs':
+    target  => $kandra::vector::conf,
+    order   => '50',
+    content => template('kandra/vector_ses.toml.template.erb'),
+  }
+}
diff --git a/puppet/kandra/templates/vector_ses.toml.template.erb b/puppet/kandra/templates/vector_ses.toml.template.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1c3ca5b78d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/puppet/kandra/templates/vector_ses.toml.template.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# SES writes all of its logs to a single SQS queue; we consume them,
+# batch them, and write them to files in S3 for later analysis.
+[sources.ses_logs_sqs]
+  type = "aws_sqs"
+  queue_url = "<%= @ses_logs_sqs_url %>"
+
+[transforms.extract_ses_message]
+  type = "remap"
+  inputs = ["ses_logs_sqs"]
+  # SES puts its JSON into the text .Message field of the SQS JSON
+  # event, which itself is serialized before we get it
+  source = '''
+  . = parse_json!(string!(.message)).Message
+  '''
+
+[sinks.ses_logs_s3]
+  type = "aws_s3"
+  inputs = ["extract_ses_message"]
+  bucket = "<%= @ses_logs_s3_bucket %>"
+  compression = "gzip"
+  batch.max_bytes = 10000000  # 100k, before compression
+  batch.timeout_secs = 300    # ..or 5min, whichever is first
+  encoding.codec = "text"
+  key_prefix = "%F/"
+  storage_class = "STANDARD_IA"