Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. Sitecore Send

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon SES
Score 9.0 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
Sitecore Send
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Sitecore Send, formerly Moosend, is an email marketing platform featuring drag and drop editor and templates for newsletters, automated workflow, mailing list management with custom fields and advanced segmentation, and personalized content.
$10
Per Subscriber
Pricing
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)Sitecore Send
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
Starting Price
$10.00
Per Subscriber
Maximum Price
$760.00
Per Subscriber
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon SESSitecore Send
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)Sitecore Send
Features
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)Sitecore Send
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
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Ratings
Sitecore Send
9.4
10 Ratings
16% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings8.910 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.49 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings8.48 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
List management00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
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Ratings
Sitecore Send
10.0
8 Ratings
26% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
-
Ratings
Sitecore Send
10.0
6 Ratings
21% above category average
URL Validation00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Link Tracking00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Image Validation00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Inbox Display00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Spam Testing00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Email Previews00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
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Enterprises

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User Ratings
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)Sitecore Send
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(23 ratings)
8.9
(10 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(2 ratings)
8.9
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)Sitecore Send
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.
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Sitecore
UI presented by this application is not only unique but also important to implement for further creation. Hence a proven and tested application for tracing the developments at all places to check the capability of the developmental process. It’s a powerful email marketing tool and helps to maintain the client’s relationship with full support.
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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.
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Sitecore
  • Moosend is the best application to trace the business development and to create ideas through email marketing
  • This tool is helpful in the atomization of developments on a certain level
  • It promotes business opportunities in the market with innovation and ideas
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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.
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Sitecore
  • If you have more than 1000 subscribers you will be required to upgrade to the Pro plan.
  • Free plan users have limited customer support.
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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.
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Sitecore
Pretty straight forward but it takes sometime to get used to. Not exactly like WordPress or other open source cms but it gets the job done
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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.
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Sitecore
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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.
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Sitecore
Moosend is known as more of an industry standard than BuzzStream (which is a more budget tool), and it shows. BuzzStream has clearly cut corners in areas of usability and general UI, where Moosend, on the other hand, seems to have done it right from the beginning. Moosend is so much less clunky than the other tools we evaluated.
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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.
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Sitecore
  • Moosend is quite affordable (500,000 emails for $500), so it's easy to see an ROI. It only takes a few recipients converting to make a campaign worth the spend.
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