Amazon Pinpoint vs. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Pinpoint
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Pinpoint (formerly Amazon Mobile Analytics) allows users to measure app usage and app revenue. It tracks key metrics like new vs. returning users, app revenue, user retention, and in-app behavior/events. The goal is to enable users to make data-driven decisions to increase engagement and monetization for their app(s). Users can view key charts in the console and automatically export app event data to Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift to run custom analysis. Amazon Pinpoint is free up to…N/A
Amazon SES
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is an outbound-only email-sending service useful for marketing and transactional email, relying on the infrastructure of Amazon. Amazon SES provides the requisite statistics and built-in notifications for bounces, complaints, and deliveries for optimization of campaigns. Emails are sent via SMTP or the Amazon SES API. Amazon's pricing is per usage, presently at $.10 per thousand sends. The service is free for users of Amazon EC2 (up to 62,000 messages),…
$0.10
for emails after the first 1,000
Pricing
Amazon PinpointAmazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Editions & Modules
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Sending Emails from an Application Hosted in Amazon EC2
$0.10 ($0.12)
for every 1,000 emails after 62,000 (for each GB of storage)
Sending Emails from Another Email Client or Software Package
$0.10 ($0.12)
for every 1,000 emails (for each GB of storage)
Receiving Email
$0.10
for emails after the first 1,000
Sending Emails from an Application Hosted in Amazon EC2
Free
for first 62,000 emails
Receiving Email
Free
for the first 1,000 emails
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon PinpointAmazon SES
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Amazon PinpointAmazon Simple Email Service (SES)
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Amazon PinpointAmazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Small Businesses
Smartlook
Smartlook
Score 8.5 out of 10
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Score 7.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Flurry Analytics
Flurry Analytics
Score 9.0 out of 10
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Score 7.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Flurry Analytics
Flurry Analytics
Score 9.0 out of 10

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User Ratings
Amazon PinpointAmazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.9
(21 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon PinpointAmazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
If you are utilizing mobile push, email, or SMS for marketing reasons, Amazon Pinpoint is amazing. If you are utilizing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud as your backend system, then the support all can come from one place, which makes troubleshooting easier. We use Amazon Pinpoint in order to send billions of emails. Most notable is the use for password reset.
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Amazon AWS
Amazon Simple Email Service comes with the bundle of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and it also offers a limited number of emails per month for free. One who has a technical background and wants to send custom emails with custom domains in a professional way can go with Amazon Simple Email Service. If you have no technical background or tech team, it might not be useful for you.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Text messaging
  • Lambda integration
  • Marketing
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Amazon AWS
  • Amazon Simple Email Service is a much lower cost than most other solutions and truly makes cost a non-factor in most situations where we consider implementing it.
  • The API is so well documented that implementing Amazon Simple Email Service in nearly any application or codebase is achievable with basic coding knowledge.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Re-subscription
  • Clearer daily reporting
  • Better opt out
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Amazon AWS
  • Even if you do not want to spam, you cant send an email to the unverified users.
  • Integration with other services is a bit tricky. To watch the trail, handle bounced emails, save emails on S3 are not straightforward to implement.
  • When you want to send a lot of emails (in bulk), it takes a significant amount of time.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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Amazon AWS
We did not have the need of contacting Amazon for support. The documentation they provide is of great quality. Examples are easy to follow. One thing to have into consideration is we didn't have the premium support for AWS, so I can't provide details on how good or bad this service is, but in general, the basic support I had was great.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Amazon Pinpoint is way easier to use than Adobe Campaign and cheaper than Salesforce. Great solution with easy AWS integration for a non-beatable price. When you think about the integration that you need to use with a third-party application and all the backend software installs, you can see why being able to use the AWS API to make calls to Amazon Pinpoint directly would be a way more feasible solution if you're using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud already.
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Amazon AWS
Mailchimp has a fixed monthly price, and with the number of emails that we sent, it's pretty expensive. Since our mailings are quite infrequent, using Mailchimp didn't make financial sense for us, even though Mailchimp is a more polished, packaged solution for email marketing. We evaluated other email delivery solutions as well and didn't find anything that matches Amazon SES on reliability and pricing.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Faster deliverability
  • Lack of integration with third-party software
  • Well-documented and great support
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Amazon AWS
  • SES is still more cost effective than other email services like Mailgun.
  • Unless we have a high-traffic month, staying within the free tier is very nice for our bottom line.
  • Not having to spend time worrying about SES reliability saves us frustration and money.
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