Item: Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Rating: 8
Author: Jay Momaya

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

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.

Return on Investment

Quick setup saves time and no maintenance needed.
Cheap as compared to some other SMTP servers so it saves money in our organization.

Support Rating

The support from AWS has always been good. There is no complaint from my organization. Also, the documentation is very good so I don't find any difficulties in this. So overall it is a very easy and smooth process to adapt.

Key Insights

Do you think Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

In our demos, we try sending the reports to the email ids from which the user is logged in. Our demos are hosted on AWS ECS and the whole demo works on the AWS ecosystem. So to send the reports we use AWS SES as it is in the same ecosystem, no extra SMTP configuration needed and it is very easy. So in this way, we use SES for many demos and other use as well.

Best Email Service for AWS ecosystem.

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Simple Email Service