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 Simple Email Service (SES) is a pay-as-you-go service based on the volume of emails sent and received. There are no subscriptions, no contract negotiations, and no minimum charges.
SERVICE TYPE
PRICE
ADDITIONAL CHARGES
Outbound email
$0.10/1000 emails
$0.12 per gigabyte (GB) of data in the attachments you send*
Global Endpoints
$0.03/1000 emails
On top of base sending price only when sent through multi-region endpoint ID****
Inbound email
$0.10/1000 emails
$0.09 for every 1,000 incoming email chunks (see Pricing details for more information)
Mail Manager
-Open ingress endpoint**
$50 per month per endpoint
-Email processing***
$0.15/1000 emails
$0.09 for every 1,000 incoming email chunks (see Pricing details for more information)
-Archiving
$2 per GB of emails ingested
$0.19 per GB per month for storing and searching the archive
-Email add ons
Varies based on the add on solution you choose
Amazon Connect email
$0.05 per email
Learn more on the Connect Pricing page
* You might incur additional data transfer charges for using EC2
** An open ingress endpoint offers exclusive resources, allowing customers to receive emails directly to their domain. Additionally, we provide a complimentary authenticated ingress endpoint that only accepts emails from credentialed senders.
*** Email processing refers to emails processed by Mail Manager regardless of inbound receiving or outbound sending.
**** You might incur additional data transfer charges for moving your sending workload to your second configured Global Endpoints Region.
***** You can use the Amazon Web Services Monthly Calculator to estimate your monthly charges for using Amazon SES. Please note that the pricing calculator does not currently include SES Free Tier discounts.
Set up and Installation
Alternatives
SendGrid
Mailchimp
