I'm unable to send emails from Django App on AWS

Question

I'm unable to receive emails from my app after deploying to Aws, My app sits on Ec2 and I host my env on Elastic Bean, The emailing situation works fine locally but not on AWS. Note: I use Amazon SES

I'm not sure on what to do next at this point, I don't seem to be able to find the problem.

HERE IS MY SETTINGS FOR EMAIL

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = os.getenv('EMAIL_HOST')
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
# EMAIL_USE_SSL=True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.getenv('EMAIL_HOST_USER')
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.getenv('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD')

HERE IS MY LOG FILE

django_1  | Exception in thread Thread-184:
django_1  | Traceback (most recent call last):
django_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/threading.py", line 973, in _bootstrap_inner
django_1  |     self.run()
django_1  |   File "/build/authentication/utils.py", line 15, in run
django_1  |     self.email.send()
django_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/mail/message.py", line 284, in send
django_1  |     return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self])
django_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 102, in send_messages
django_1  |     new_conn_created = self.open()
django_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 67, in open
django_1  |     self.connection.starttls(keyfile=self.ssl_keyfile, certfile=self.ssl_certfile)
django_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/smtplib.py", line 769, in starttls
django_1  |     self.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed()
django_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/smtplib.py", line 611, in ehlo_or_helo_if_needed
django_1  |     if not (200 <= self.ehlo()[0] <= 299):
django_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/smtplib.py", line 451, in ehlo
django_1  |     self.putcmd(self.ehlo_msg, name or self.local_hostname)
django_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/smtplib.py", line 378, in putcmd
django_1  |     self.send(f'{s}{CRLF}')
django_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/smtplib.py", line 365, in send
django_1  |     raise SMTPServerDisconnected('please run connect() first')
django_1  | smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: please run connect() first
django_1  | [23/Mar/2022 11:29:11] "POST /api/auth/register HTTP/1.1" 201 1246```