Send transactional emails in a much better way using Amazon Simple Email Service
We were looking for a tool to send bulk promotional and transactional emails without putting them in spam, then we looked over Amazon …
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 Trial
- 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 |
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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Amazon Simple Email Service is much better in terms of customization and has fair pricing.
December 01, 2021
Emails Management
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
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.
February 27, 2020
Easy to go Email Notifications Service
We have not used any other alternatives.
December 12, 2019
My experience with Amazon 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 could send emails from Amazon SES without problems.
December 05, 2019
Easy to use!
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 it was better to continue using the services we had, instead of bringing different technology to the project.
December 04, 2019
Once configured, SES is the reliable, cost-effective choice
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 obviously very convenient.
Not to mention, we use so many other services at AWS, the integration is obviously very convenient.
December 04, 2019
Fast and simple setup
I haven't used others in this space.
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 later when needed.
July 23, 2018
Amazon SES a great business solution
July 05, 2018
SES is great low cost no frills email platform. Suited for marketing emails more so than transaction emails
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.
January 31, 2018
Simple E-mail Service- may not be simple, but well worth it!
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 of the email domain if you want to use SES. If your email needs scale up and you do not have the patience to learn SES, use a service like Sendgrid.
December 04, 2017
About SES at a glance.
April 17, 2017
Send thousands of emails -- pay a buck
- MailChimp and Sendy
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 had that implemented on my website already. But when I did, I just simply used Sendy and voilĂ ; you have that fancy service for cents.
March 02, 2017
Finally a simple and programatic way to send emails.
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 Contact, or Campaign Monitor and SES is that you could literally create those other services using SES. For all I know, they might use SES as their sending agent, while their value add is email lists, HTML composition, and subscribe forms.
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 generate and manage web-based copies of the e-mail. That said, it gives the developer full control of the messages.
Pricing, again, is the killer feature here. SES is cheaper than every single e-mail delivery provider I have ever encountered.
Pricing, again, is the killer feature here. SES is cheaper than every single e-mail delivery provider I have ever encountered.