Description
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cloud-based email sending and receiving service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). This platform enables users to effortlessly send bulk, transactional, and marketing emails without the hassle of managing their own email servers. Amazon SES offers several advantages, including scalability for sending millions of emails per day, high reliability with a robust uptime and delivery rate, cost-effectiveness through a pay-as-you-go model, enhanced security measures to protect data, and user-friendly setup and operation even for those with limited experience in email marketing. Businesses of all sizes can leverage Amazon SES for purposes such as sending marketing communications, transactional emails like order confirmations, password reset notifications, and bulk emails such as newsletters. In summary, Amazon SES stands out as a potent and cost-efficient solution for email sending and receiving.
Pricing Details
Amazon SES uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model with two main components:
1. Email Sending:
Free Tier: Up to 62,000 emails per month are included for free, making it ideal for small-scale use and testing.
Pay-per-Thousand: After exceeding the free tier, you pay $0.10 per thousand emails sent. This rate applies to all regions and email sizes.
Virtual Deliverability Manager: An optional add-on for improved deliverability, costing $0.07 per thousand emails sent, in addition to the standard sending charges.
2. Incoming Email:
$0.10 per thousand received email blocks. A block is roughly 256KB, so the cost depends on the size of your emails.
Free Tier: 1000 received email blocks per month are included for free.
Additional Factors:
Data Transfer: You are charged $0.12 per GB of data transferred for outgoing email content, including headers, body, and attachments. This applies even within the free tier.
Storage: Standard email storage is free for up to 60 days. After that, you are charged for storage based on the region and message size.
Set up and Installation
Alternatives
SendGrid
Mailchimp
