Amazon SES vs AWS Elastic Beanstalk | TrustRadius

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Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 40 reviews and ratings

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 219 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon SES

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

Pros

SES is highly reliable. Haven't had any issues that I know of.
It is extremely cost effective. Most of the time we stay under the free tier which is nice!
Once set up, it's pretty much hands free. Haven't had to adjust old code... ever.

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Innovah LLCInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Extremely easy to get set up and get apps deployed.
Integrates really well with existing build processes and is manageable through a suite of CLI tools.
It is very easy to scale up.
The documentation is exceptionally detailed and covers a very wide range of deployment scenarios.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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Cons

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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Senior Solutions Architect

InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Difficult to understand. No matter how cute and easy the AWS videos sound, I find it difficult to understand. There are just too many configurations.
EBS is free, but you pay for the resources. Problem is, I end up using more resources, thus paying more.
They could work on their logging system a bit more. I would love more dashboard metrics in logging, and an easier way to look at logs.
An option to make the default URL more friendly. I am forced now to use Route 53 to get a more friendly DNS name, but would have loved if they would have provided a better name to begin with. There are long random strings which could go away.

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Rahul Chaudhary

Software Engineer

Capital OneInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk 5.5

Based on 2 answers

As our technology grows, it makes more sense to individually provision each server rather than have it done via beanstalk. There are several reasons to do so, which I cannot explain without further diving into the architecture itself, but I can tell you this. With automation, you also loose the flexibility to morph the system for your specific needs. So if you expect that in future you need more customization to your deployment process, then there is a good chance that you might try to do things individually rather than use an automation like beanstalk.

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Rahul Chaudhary

Software Engineer

Capital OneInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Usability

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.6

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It is a great tool to manage your applications. You just need to write the codes, and after that with one click, your app will be online and accessible from the internet. That is a huge help for people who do not know about infrastructure or do not want to spend money on maintaining infrastructure.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support

Amazon SES 8.4

Based on 5 answers

The support from AWS has always been good. There is no complaint from my organization. Also, the documentation is very good so I don't find any difficulties in this. So overall it is a very easy and smooth process to adapt.

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Software Engineer

InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.7

Based on 11 answers

The support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk was adequate. For most of our situations and our queries, the responsiveness and resolution was satisfactory. We did have one or two situations where it took us a couple of iterations to get to the bottom of things. Generally adequate support, but there is a little room for improvement

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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Implementation

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.0

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- Do as many experiments as you can before you commit on using beanstalk or other AWS features.- Keep future state in mind. Think through what comes next, and if that is technically possible to do so.- Always factor in cost in terms of scaling.- We learned a valuable lesson when we wanted to go multi-region, because then we realized many things needs to change in code. So if you plan on using this a lot, factor multiple regions.

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Rahul Chaudhary

Software Engineer

Capital OneInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I'd recommend SendGrid and MailChimp to most smaller business that can't dedicate engineers solely to their email pipeline. The price/value ration is fair and the tools are fairly flexible for the intended use cases. It's often a good idea to start to start there and only pivot later when needed.

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Verified User

Consultant in Engineering

Retail Company, 201-500 employees

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The other main competitor that I have used would probably be Heroku. While Heroku is incredibly simple and easy to get a sample web app online, its dashboard and product connectivity didn't feel quite as seamless as AWS Elastic Beanstalk. AWS Elastic Beanstalk has a higher up front cost to learn and deploy, but its ability to scale and grow and be transparent afterwards is really its selling point. Heroku felt expensive, and I never really knew what I was getting from it.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Our cost of sending emails is negligible.
We have very high confidence in our email delivery.
The speed of sending is awesome. We have sent out thousands of emails in minutes - once we sent out mail as a shout out to dormant users- and it worked very well.

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Anindya Chatterjee

CEO

Saleswah CRMInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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till now we had not Calculated ROI as the project is still evolving and we had to keep on changing the environment implementation
it meets our purpose of quick deployment as compared to on-premises deployment
till now we look good as we also controlled our expenses which increased suddenly in the middle of deployment activity

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Consultant

HCL TechnologiesInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

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