Amazon Pinpoint vs. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Amazon Pinpoint

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Pinpoint	Score 8.0 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 8.4 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 Pinpoint

Amazon 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 Pinpoint	Amazon SES
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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User Ratings
	Amazon Pinpoint	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.5 (23 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.5 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.3 (8 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Pinpoint	Amazon 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. Incentivized Charell Adagala iSchool Alumni Board-President Read full review	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. Incentivized LN Lav Nandan Software Engineer Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS Text messaging Lambda integration Marketing Incentivized Charell Adagala iSchool Alumni Board-President Read full review	Amazon AWS As compare to other vendors that I have integrated response is very quick. You can verify both domain or email to send out the emails from. While setup you can easily configure it with your domain with few clicks like adding CNAME, DKIM records Easy to use with or without access key and secret key within aws servers. You can directly map permissions to servers to go without credentials using boto3. Incentivized RS Ranu Singh Technology Manager Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS Re-subscription Clearer daily reporting Better opt out Incentivized Charell Adagala iSchool Alumni Board-President Read full review	Amazon AWS While the service limits are one of the main points that keep the delivery metrics so reliable, it can be stressful to get a new implementation out the door quickly. If you're looking for a point-and-click style email delivery tool, this is not the right type of product for you. Amazon Simple Email Service is for a developer-centric approach to implementation into existing applications, processes, and services. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	Amazon AWS 1. Very less cost. 2. Fastest in market. 3. Negligible downtime. 4. Easy to integrate with other systems. 5. Easy to setup with your domain and email. Incentivized RS Ranu Singh Technology Manager Read full review
Support Rating	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Diego Turcios Lara Devops Engineer Read full review
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. Incentivized Charell Adagala iSchool Alumni Board-President Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS Faster deliverability Lack of integration with third-party software Well-documented and great support Incentivized Charell Adagala iSchool Alumni Board-President Read full review	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. Incentivized JH Joe Hakooz Owner Read full review
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