Send transactional emails in a much better way using Amazon Simple Email Service
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Starting at $0.10 for emails after the first 1,000
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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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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
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- No setup fee
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- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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 Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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February 27, 2020
Easy to go Email Notifications Service
We use Amazon Simple Email Service to send out email notifications on different scenarios and different triggers like when EC2 shuts down due to crash. We also detect events like memory overflow on EC2, S3 bucket changes, and various fishing attacks on an EC2 instance.
- Sends out email notifications
- Pay as you use
- Cannot send emails to unregistered users
- Reporting section is weak
February 06, 2020
Amazon Simple Email Service will definitely improve your existing email delivery processes.
We use Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) on several client accounts as well as several of our own applications and services. We primarily use Amazon Simple Email Service to send informational emails related to status notifications, important updates, and information requests within different applications and services. We've implemented SES for as many as 50 domains and feel confident when recommending it to clients.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
November 17, 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.