We have added include:amazonses.com to our spfTXT record but don’t see that the record is being updated.
So we did a test and created a new A record. It also have not been updated.
Also we have a message of “Cloudflare protection for your domain is in a pending state while we verify ownership”, which might be related.
Any idea why our records are not updated and what we can do to resolve it?
It sounds like you have not replaced your previous nameservers at your registrar with the assigned pair of Cloudflare nameservers. The following Community Tutorial has more details.