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December 12, 2019
My experience with Amazon SES
We use it to send newsletters from our company. And we have installed it to a lot of clients, integrated with PHP email scripts (that we made ourselves) so they can send emails too. We have users with more than 1 million mails sent per day. It's very useful because delivery is fast and it's easy to integrate with PHP scripts.
- High percentage of deliverability.
- Cost savings.
- They could have a list of bounced emails so it's easy for the sender to delete those emails from databases.
December 05, 2019
Easy to use!
We decide to use Amazon Simple Email Service for our email service, as we were having all of our infrastructure running in AWS, and we really think this was the best move. Working on a specific web application and we need it to send emails, so for developers was really easy to interact with AWS SDK for implementing the changes. For operation, this was a great option also, as the price is really low, and this is a great plus compare to other services in the market.
- If you're running your applications in a EC2, the first 62,000 emails are free.
- Pay as you go is a great feature.
- No cons! Great service and and easy to use.
December 04, 2019
Once configured, SES is the reliable, cost-effective choice
I use SES both internally and for customers. Internally it is used for our website contact forms and other internal applications.
We have used SES with several customers for the past 8 or so years.
SES solves one of the most common annoyances in programming. Email deliverability. With SES (configured correctly) we have no issues with spam filters.
We have used SES with several customers for the past 8 or so years.
SES solves one of the most common annoyances in programming. Email deliverability. With SES (configured correctly) we have no issues with spam filters.
- 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.
- As with most AWS services, you're on your own unless you pay for support. So there is a learning curve, but nothing major.
- Although things may have changed, I haven't seen any email templates. Again, that may have changed.
November 16, 2019
Best Email Service for AWS ecosystem.
We are starting to use the AWS ecosystem for different developments. So for our department in our organization our demos are hosted on AWS and we are sending all the outbound emails using AWS SES. The benefit of this is we don't have to set up an SMTP server and we can directly use this feature with no extra efforts.
- No SMTP server setup if already in AWS ecosystem
- Quick and Easy setup & integration
- Pay as you use - no extra cost
- Always verifies the email before you can it. Hectic process.
- Email template facility is not available.
November 08, 2019
SES - A cheap and easy way to send emails
We use SES across the organization. The main use-cases are as described below:
- To provide auto-response of "Contact Us" like inquiry
- We use SES in our CI and CD pipelines to supply the necessary information to respective stakeholders about build, deployment and unit testing
- Some of the web solutions which we have hosted and requires to send outbound emails, we use SES
- It provides a Console approach to send emails. This approach is really effective to monitor your mailing activities.
- Amazon provides great integration with other services as well. One can trigger a lambda function when Email is received. One can set SNS for the notification of bounced emails.
- The HTML content as an email body makes it possible to format your email. To put the tables and bit complex layout are also easy with SES in place.
- 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.
December 04, 2019
Fast and simple setup
I use Amazon SES for mailing forms from websites. I've found delivery to be very reliable and much faster than standard phpmailer. It's quite easy to set-up and verify your domain, and emails still deliver as if they came from your website.
- Speedy delivery - usually in seconds
- Easy setup - just a few minutes per domain
- Inexpensive to use - few dollars a month for reliable service
- The set-up interface could be made simpler. Some things aren't intuitive.
- It's not easy to find from the AWS menus.
- A simple testing script would be nice, but I've never had trouble using it.
July 01, 2019
True to its title: 'Simple' Email Service
Amazon SES is currently being used by our team (Mobile/ IoT) to send customized emails to users in reaction to events.
- It provides a simple syntax to create templates for customized emails
- It has a great rate limit once moved out of the sandbox
- Nice mechanisms to handle bounce and replies
- The AWS console needs to provide a GUI to create a template for an email rather than developers having to use the CLI or SDKs
- The initial sandbox limits are too low for any production application
I've used several email service products over the years, mainly SendGrid, MailChimp, and SES. In my role as a consultant, I aim to recommend the best tool for the business problem being solved. 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.
- Great pricing
- Amazing performance when accessed from inside AWS
- Granular API provides great amounts of flexibility
- Improve performance when accessed from outside AWS
- Improve web interface capabilities
July 23, 2018
Amazon SES a great business solution
We use Amazon SES to send transactional emails with high deliverability. We want our customers to have the best rate and results. Setting Amazon SES as a provider is really easy and it helps us reach as many inboxes as possible.
- Higher deliverability
- Higher reputation
- Easy setup
- SES knowledge to setup
- Email marketing background to keep the lists with very low bounces and complaints
July 05, 2018
SES is great low cost no frills email platform. Suited for marketing emails more so than transaction emails
I use Amazon SES to send out watch list emails so users can know when new listings appear on our website.
- cheap
- fast
- reliable
- suppression list removal is a pain and you can't see which emails are suppressed like with other services
- API isn't the easiest to use when integrating with PERL
- SES gets blocked by a lot of ISPs due to many bad actors using it. Having a dedicated IP is the only way to go
January 31, 2018
Simple E-mail Service- may not be simple, but well worth it!
We are a CRM vendor and our product is deployed as a service (SAAS). We use SES to send out automated emails to clients - when they register, when they forget their password and need it re-set and [we use it for]the first set of onboarding emails. We do not use it for email marketing.
- Low cost; I do not know anyone that can match their low cost unless you are in the free tier of G-Suite for work Gmail.
- High reliability - messages do get delivered. We have had no issues.
- Easy to set up the basics - generate the credentials and add it to your code.
- 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.
April 17, 2017
Send thousands of emails -- pay a buck
I'm working for a hosting company and it's no secret that usual hosting providers do not let their users send mass emails. So when our clients constantly exceed the limits, I suggest them to look into Amazon SES. Most of them thank me because they have never heard about Amazon SES. Also, I've been personally using Amazon SES for over 3 years now and it's a live saver! I've sent thousands of emails without any issues and Amazon SES is exactly what I needed.
- Amazon SES is a simple service that's not bloated with unnecessary features.
- It's fast and reliable. You can literally send thousands of emails without any issue.
- 10 cents for 1000 emails? The price is just simply amazing!
- It could be more user-friendly for non-tech-savvy people.
- I've praised that it does not have any unnecessary features. However, some people could use implemented tools.
- Initial limit is too low but you can lift it with no issues.
March 02, 2017
Finally a simple and programatic way to send emails.
We use Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) in a number of our software products to send large quantities of emails on behalf of our customers. Their support of DKIM allows us to send high-quality emails without worrying as much about spam filters. It has also served as a simple solution for sending SMTP email from various websites (think contact forms and the like) where using the computer's native "sendmail" commands are insufficient.
- Very high send rates. We often send out over 50,000 emails in a matter of minutes (30-40 minutes).
- Very simple to authorize email sending from an entire domain.
- You get full control of your emails and are not as strictly bound to a set of policies as you would be with an email "platform" like MailChimp. Of course, that means you have to do more legwork too.
- You cannot send embedded images (Base64 encoded) in your emails. This is a pretty big gotcha. So if you want to send images along, it's best to store them externally.
- Virtually zero analytics on your emails. It is up to you to implement open detection, click detection etc.
- Has no email list storage. That's up to you.
Our entire organization uses multiple pairs of SMTP credentials from AWS to send all our transactional, marketing, and system monitoring e-mail messages. It makes life for the developers very easy, because they have a single interface to send an e-mail, regardless of the system originating the message.
In addition to its simplicity, the dirt-cheap pricing is almost negligible. The monthly bill for all of our e-mails is roughly $4 per month, and simply cannot be beat by any other SMTP provider.
In addition to its simplicity, the dirt-cheap pricing is almost negligible. The monthly bill for all of our e-mails is roughly $4 per month, and simply cannot be beat by any other SMTP provider.
- DKIM signing for all messages. This absolutely maximizes the probability of a message reaching a user's inbox, and not the spam folder.
- API *and* SMTP access, making it possible to connect any system to SES. No matter what programming language or what server, there is always a library for sending e-mail messages that is compatible with SES.
- SES makes it trivial to send thousands of e-mails from known mail servers. No longer do you have to worry about your server's IP address being blacklisted because it originated too many e-mails.
- Incredible credential management for increased security. With IAM, you can create API keys (or SMTP credentials) for each individual piece of an infrastructure, making debugging very easy.
- For users that are not used to semi-complex APIs, the AWS SDK can be a little intimidating. That said, with the SMTP credential feature, the API learning curve can be avoided.
- It is frustrating that you have to verify each e-mail address or domain name (wildcard) you wish to use in the From: header of the e-mail messages. I understand this is a security feature, but for long-time verified accounts, it would be nice to use arbitrary e-mail addresses and domains.
December 04, 2017
About SES at a glance.
We use Amazon Simple Email Service for sending out emails related to password changes, emailing the details about the latest updates to the product, sending out links to verify user activity etc. SES enabled us to sink our systems to help users understand their recent driving behavior using a single button click. SES enabled us to send HTML pages which were built very easily.
- Easy to send thousands of messages without worrying about scaling.
- Very easy to understand SDK and modules in Java and Python and start sending custom emails in minutes.
- Not a costly service. Implementing using the service and training people is really simple.
- Could maintain a dashboard with the list of previously sent emails and their templates.
- Amazon Simple Email Service dashboard could be made more user-friendly by including few HTML snippets so that they are readily available for testing.
August 17, 2017
SES Sends Mail Like a Champ
We use Amazon's Simple Email Service to handle sending out important notifications and replies from our ticketing system. When we initially launched we quickly surpassed the volume of email that Google allowed through their SMTP relay, so I quickly set up SES to get our system back up and running. Where Google limited us to sending 2,000 messages a day, SES allowed us to send 12,000 each day, which was more than enough.
- Setup was easy. It does require proof of domain control as well as a human review, but while those items are pending you are able to fully set up the system to be able to run once approval is done and not have to bounce between development and production configurations.
- SES does not seem to have any major issues at the moment, it's an email relay service and it does that job swimmingly.
Amazon SES Scorecard Summary
About Amazon SES
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), and for new users of the Amazon AWS service free usage tier (from the 15 GB of data transfer across AWS services).
Categories: Transactional Email
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