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
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- 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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- It helped to send transactional emails in a much better way.
- It's fair pricing is helpful in maintaining budgets.
- Large community support and well documentation make the setup easy.
December 01, 2021
Emails Management
- High email deliverability rates have a positive effect on the effectiveness of our email campaigns
- Using SES and in-house built mailer allowed us to save a significant amount over the years, comparing to using a pre-packaged email marketing solution
February 27, 2020
Easy to go Email Notifications Service
- Faster turn around time to market for our customers
- Tightly coupled with AWS
February 06, 2020
Amazon Simple Email Service will definitely improve your existing email delivery processes.
- Amazon Simple Email Service has improved delivery rates and eliminated delivery issues everywhere we have impelmented it.
- We have been able to enforce stricter security within our application environments because we are using Amazon Simple Email Service instead of handling email transmissions natively.
December 12, 2019
My experience with Amazon SES
- The only negative impact is that they don't have a list of bounced emails.
December 05, 2019
Easy to use!
- Basically, we're not paying for this, as our web application doesn't send more than 40,000 emails during the month.
- Easy implementation for developers.
December 04, 2019
Once configured, SES is the reliable, cost-effective choice
- SES is still more cost effective than other email services like Mailgun.
- Unless we have a high-traffic month, staying within the free tier is very nice for our bottom line.
- Not having to spend time worrying about SES reliability saves us frustration and money.
December 04, 2019
Fast and simple setup
- More reliable email for clients
- Very inexpensive to implement
- Easy to manage for small orgs
November 17, 2019
Best Email Service for AWS ecosystem.
- Quick setup saves time and no maintenance needed.
- Cheap as compared to some other SMTP servers so it saves money in our organization.
November 08, 2019
SES - A cheap and easy way to send emails
- We could easily streamline email response and send email events through SES.
- Since it is a little closed service, it requires a bit of extra effort to glue it with other solutions.
July 01, 2019
True to its title: 'Simple' Email Service
- SES has reduced development time and abstracted away a lot of technical difficulties for sending templated emails and hence increased productivity
- Lowered costs
- Quicker turnaround on unique feature requests
July 23, 2018
Amazon SES a great business solution
- Email marketing has better ROI than social media marketing
- At least 3x ROI
July 05, 2018
SES is great low cost no frills email platform. Suited for marketing emails more so than transaction emails
- Saves me around $75/month over using other compeititors
January 31, 2018
Simple E-mail Service- may not be simple, but well worth it!
- Our cost of sending emails is negligible.
- We have very high confidence in our email delivery.
- The speed of sending is awesome. We have sent out thousands of emails in minutes - once we sent out mail as a shout out to dormant users- and it worked very well.
December 04, 2017
About SES at a glance.
- Implemented the email service in minutes as the SDK is very easy to implement a sample.
- Could send out thousands of emails in minutes and was able to send out bigger attachments in the email.
- Engaging with users helped us in winning more number of users to install our App.
August 17, 2017
SES Sends Mail Like a Champ
- SES allowed us to send thousands of messages without any major concern of hitting sending limits.
April 17, 2017
Send thousands of emails -- pay a buck
- I've reduced my spendings; saved hundreds of dollars switching from all-in-one tool to Amazon SES
- ROI has increased due to more sales and fewer spendings.
- The increase in sales; I'm able to send more emails and more reliably.
March 02, 2017
Finally a simple and programatic way to send emails.
- Our services that leverage SES are entirely white labeled, which increases customer confidence.
- All positive things. The fact that we can send tens of thousands of e-mails per month for less than $5 is incredible. Find a better price for something even remotely as high-quality as SES.
- SES provides a set-and-forget way of handling e-mail. Drop in the credentials, and your developers will never have to mess with it again.