Amazon SES vs Campaign Monitor

Likelihood to Recommend

While most companies can get away with stock or lightly modified SaaS solutions, if email is absolutely core to your business, I'd recommend Amazon's Simple Email Service. It provides the lowest pricing outside of building up your own sender reputation, while providing the same flexibility and performance, especially if your application servers are already in AWS.

The drawback to all this power is that you need to dedicate engineering resources to building, modifying, and maintaining your email pipeline. If you can't justify those expenses, go with a SaaS product.

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Consultant in Engineering

Retail Company, 201-500 employees

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It's an easy-to-use interface that works well for self-service clients and solopreneurs looking to keep in touch with their customers. For more robust automations and triggers, it would be better to look into options like Active Campaign, Infusionsoft, or even MailChimp. Though there can be a significant price difference between those types of services.

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Nicholas De Salvo

Founder, Creative Director

Edge One MediaDesign, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon SES

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Campaign Monitor

8.5

WYSIWYG email editor

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8.0

Dynamic content

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7.9

Ability to test dynamic content

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8.0

A/B testing

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8.4

Email deliverability

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10.0

Amazon SES

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Campaign Monitor

10.0

Standard reports

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10.0

Pros

Great pricing
Amazing performance when accessed from inside AWS
Granular API provides great amounts of flexibility

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Verified User

Consultant in Engineering

Retail Company, 201-500 employees

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Nice design tools
Salesforce integration
Analytics

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David Nero

Chief Information Officer

Perkins School for the BlindNon-Profit Organization Management, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Setting up for bounces is just so hard! Amazon needs to do a better job here in providing instructions.
Struggling to set up spf- again, the instructions are not great and often confusing.

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Anindya Chatterjee

CEO

Saleswah CRMInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Strong overall
Raisers edge integration

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David Nero

Chief Information Officer

Perkins School for the BlindNon-Profit Organization Management, 501-1000 employees

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Campaign Monitor 10.0

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Very simple yet still full featured.

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Nick Wynkoop

Founder

Truckstop.comInternet, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

In terms of ease of use, Gmail is the best. But, SES is preferred because there is no rate limit and it is so inexpensive. If you want list management, image embed capability, and easy setup, SES is not for you. You need to be technically sound and have a thorough understanding of the email domain if you want to use SES. If your email needs scale up and you do not have the patience to learn SES, use a service like Sendgrid.

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Anindya Chatterjee

CEO

Saleswah CRMInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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I selected campaign monitor because it is a solid software and great product

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alan serpa

Founder and CEO

VINIFood & Beverages, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Implemented the email service in minutes as the SDK is very easy to implement a sample.
Could send out thousands of emails in minutes and was able to send out bigger attachments in the email.
Engaging with users helped us in winning more number of users to install our App.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employees

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So far it's been positive
We've sold some products
Templates take time to figure out

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alan serpa

Founder and CEO

VINIFood & Beverages, 1-10 employees

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Amazon SES vs Campaign Monitor

Amazon SES

Campaign Monitor

Feature Rating Comparison

Email & Online Marketing

WYSIWYG email editor

Dynamic content

Ability to test dynamic content

A/B testing

Email deliverability

Reporting & Analytics

Standard reports

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