SES is great low cost no frills email platform. Suited for marketing emails more so than transaction emails
July 05, 2018
SES is great low cost no frills email platform. Suited for marketing emails more so than transaction emails
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Simple Email Service
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
- Saves me around $75/month over using other compeititors
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.