Question 1

What is Amazon SES?

Accepted Answer

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).

Question 2

What is Amazon SES's best feature?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

Who uses Amazon SES?

Accepted Answer

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