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Amazon SES

Overview

What is 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…

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Fast and simple setup

10 out of 10
December 04, 2019
Incentivized
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 …
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Pricing

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Sending Emails from an Application Hosted in Amazon EC2

$0.10 ($0.12)

Cloud
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)

Cloud
for every 1,000 emails (for each GB of storage)

Receiving Email

$0.10

Cloud
for emails after the first 1,000

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Amazon SES?

Amazon SES Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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).

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.3.

The most common users of Amazon SES are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
December 01, 2021

Emails Management

Zobia Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is difficult to set a Sandbox environment. In the SNS environment, we need to verify all emails we need to send emails and all emails we want to receive an email so it becomes difficult when we integrate it to a website where tons of emails are going to receive in it.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon SES is well-suited for a "do-it-yourself" mass-mailing solution, where fine control over mail delivery is required. Since mail server reputation affects deliverability greatly, and SES has a good reputation, it's a great fit for SMBs: mail server reputation cannot be built overnight. Amazon SES is not a turnkey solution, so significant internal expertise is required, and it cannot be compared to packaged services like Mailchimp.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Amazon Simple Email Service to auto-respond to users that submit messages through a contact form. We are using Amazon Simple Email Service with our self hosted python application to send our marketing emails, get feedback for our services, and Hackathons.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon Simple Email Service is an excellent choice for integrating high-volume or important email delivery into an existing application, service, or custom established workflow in your organization. If you have a true development group looking for a seamless way of handling email delivery, this is the right product for you. It's easiest to set up if you're already using other AWS services such as Route53 for DNS but can function as a standalone service. However, if you're expecting a product that was designed to do all of its intended functions from a user interface, that's not what Amazon Simple Email Service was intended to be.
December 05, 2019

Easy to use!

Diego Turcios Lara | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you're working with an AWS infrastructure this is the best move, as you will get great benefits from using it and your development team will feel that they know what they're doing. If you're not using AWS, this probably can be a problem, as you will not get the 62,000 emails for free, or developers will feel a little strange working with different technologies.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SES is great when you have an online form that needs to send email. It's bullet proof and can handle large loads.
I probably wouldn't use SES for a smaller temporary use case. There is configuration needed with SES and potential (tiny) costs.

Generally, I have one configuration that I use for most forms unless I expect high traffic. In that case I keep it separate.
Jay Momaya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our demos, we try sending the reports to the email ids from which the user is logged in. Our demos are hosted on AWS ECS and the whole demo works on the AWS ecosystem. So to send the reports we use AWS SES as it is in the same ecosystem, no extra SMTP configuration needed and it is very easy. So in this way, we use SES for many demos and other use as well.
Apurv Doshi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When you have set up your ecosystem with AWS, SES is the best option to send a message. If you have EC2 for any of the applications, you can do 62K free emails per month. The way it interacts with SNS, S3, AWS KMS (to encrypt the email before storing to the S3) and Amazon cloud watch makes it more comprehensive.
If you are not an Amazon shop and just looking for SMTP solutions, SES is not for you.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.

Anindya Chatterjee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are looking for a no fuss, functional email delivery engine at a very low cost, Amazon SES is great. But, there is a learning curve, the documentation is often dense and many times, you yearn for a simple GUI, while setting up your interface. SES has barebones analytics - virtually none. It also does not do list management. Mapping bounces to SNS is not very intuitive either. If you are sending embedded images, you need to load them from external servers.
December 04, 2017

About SES at a glance.

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon Simple Email Service could be used to target user engagement just like SNS notifications. This could be an alternative where the user might need to have some registration information, password reset emails, marketing emails etc. It is less appropriate if you want to map a domain name on top of amazon.com domain name as its clearly visible on which service is being used to send out emails.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon SES is great for sending bulk mail, particularly notifications. It is not intended for holding a conversation as there is no way to view the mail that has been sent, so unless you are using a third party system that tracks what mail is being sent, such as a ticketing system like Kayako, you would not want to use it for regular communication.
Arnas Kazlauskas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) shines if you just want to send bulk mail and you do not want to pay any monthly fees for the software that you won't use. You pay exactly for what you use -- to send emails. Amazon SES is extremely reliable, I haven't seen any bounces that were on their end.

Speaking about features that are lacking; if you do not have software to send and track all the subscriptions, you may want to look into services that have that implemented already. Personally, I'm using Amazon SES as my SMTP server and Sendy to track all the subscriptions, statistics, reports and all the other features. The price difference between putting several products together and using all-in-one product is huge. Therefore, hands down to Amazon SES for [being] such a great product.
Justin Schroeder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
SES is truly a "simple" email sender. It's focused on the actual technology behind sending emails, and sending emails that appear that they genuinely come from a specific domain. This is awesome if you've got some developers to implement the technology to make this kind of service valuable. However, if you don't know how to write code to conform to an API, or how DNS records work – steer clear. This is not for the faint of heart.
D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As I said before, SES is ideal for outsourcing any and all e-mail message origination. Marketing e-mails, new user signup e-mails, and e-mails that notify engineers of service problems are all excellent use cases for SES. For startups, the fact that you get 10,000 free e-mails, just for signing up, makes it a no-brainer when in the early development stages of writing a program. Once the credentials are loaded into the code, you can forget about e-mail origination forever (almost)!
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