Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. Azure StorSimple

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Azure StorSimple

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon SES	Score 8.2 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
Azure StorSimple	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	StorSimple was acquired by Microsoft in 2012. The StorSimple storage gateway appliance is now a part of Microsoft's Azure StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage solution.	$4.11 Per Day

Pricing

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Azure StorSimple

Editions & Modules

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

Virtual Appliance: $4.11
Per Day
Cloud Array: $4.11
Per Day
Physical Appliance: $43.84
Per Day

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon SES	Azure StorSimple
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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	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)	Azure StorSimple

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User Ratings
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)	Azure StorSimple
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (23 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)	Azure StorSimple
Likelihood to Recommend	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	Microsoft Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review
Pros	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	Microsoft Performance via the SSD drives. Writes back to our Private Cloud via Azure. Easy to Admin via Web client interface. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review
Cons	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	Microsoft Additional fail-over functionality Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	Microsoft If I wanted to use just onsite storage the StorSimple device is already paid for. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review
Usability	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	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Support Rating	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	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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	Microsoft Easy to use and highly compatible with our MSFT Hyper-V environment Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review
Return on Investment	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	Microsoft Great Folks on the MSFT Implementation team Great value on year 2 Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review
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