Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon SES	Score 8.5 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

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

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Considered Both Products	Amazon SES LN Lav Nandan Software Engineer Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Amazon Simple Email Service is much better in terms of customization and has fair pricing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) 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. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) We have not used any other alternatives. Incentivized Helpful? Francisco Mosse Director Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) We have used a dozen services. They are almost all more expensive. Some force you to wait one week to approve/deny your account if they suspect that the email database is not legal. I have very important clients with legal databases that were rejected by other companies and … Incentivized Helpful? Diego Turcios Lara Devops Engineer Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) We really thought of using Mail Chimp, and have used it before in the past, but the advantage of Amazon Simple Email Service is that we were using AWS infrastructure for these web applications. We had the instances running in EC2, our database was an RDS and Logs Cloudwatch, so … Incentivized Helpful? JH Joe Hakooz Owner Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Although I like the email template capability with these other services, and one of them is actually a customer, the simplicity, reliability, and cost effectiveness of SES keeps it at the top of the list. Not to mention, we use so many other services at AWS, the integration is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) I haven't used others in this space. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Luis Escoffié Consultor de Marketing Digital Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) The process of setting up Amazon was really easy and straightforward compared to Mandrill. And right now Mandrill is an add-on in MailChimp, so no longer a real alternative. Incentivized Helpful? Dave Stack Member Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) I also use Sendgrid for sending all my transactional emails. It is more expensive than SES, but I feel it is more reliable with a better reputation than SES. I have also used Mailgun, but they are more expensive than SES and deliverability on a shared IP are as bad as SES. Incentivized Helpful? Anindya Chatterjee CEO Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Arnas Kazlauskas IT Customer Support Specialist Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) I've selected Amazon SES due to two factors. First of all, the price is really competitive. I haven't seen a better price and if you did, please send me an email. The second factor was that I do not need all those functions to track the subscriptions, sales, reports because I … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Schroeder Full Stack Developer Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) SES is a much lower level technical tool than the other solutions we've used in the past with the exception of Mailgun. We've found SES to actually be much easier to use than Mailgun, although not as powerful. A good way to explain the difference between MailChimp, Constant … Incentivized Helpful? D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. Owner and CEO Chose Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Amazon SES is bare-bones, insofar as it will not "help" you with the contents of your message. You cannot use variables in the e-mail, it will not automatically track whether or not the recipient opened the mail or not, it will not help with unsubscribe links, and it will not … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy setup Pro Easy to configure Pro Spam folder
Top Cons	Minus Bounced emails Minus Learning curve Minus User friendly

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Small Businesses	Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill) Score 7.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill) Score 7.6 out of 10
Enterprises	No answers on this topic
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User Ratings
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Likelihood to Recommend	7.9 (21 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (8 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
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
Pros	Amazon AWS Amazon Simple Email Service is a much lower cost than most other solutions and truly makes cost a non-factor in most situations where we consider implementing it. The API is so well documented that implementing Amazon Simple Email Service in nearly any application or codebase is achievable with basic coding knowledge. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS 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. Incentivized Apurv Doshi Senior Solutions Architect Read full review
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
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
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
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