--- description: Review of Amazon SES Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Amazon SES | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Email Management Software](/directory/3433/email-tracking/software) > [Amazon SES](/software/145252/amazon-ses) # Amazon SES Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/145252/amazon-ses Page: 1 / 6\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/145252/amazon-ses?page=2) > Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) by Amazon Web Services is an email sending solution that helps application developers and digital marketers send transactional, marketing and notification emails. The solution provides built-in notifications and statistics for deliveries, bounces and complaints to optimize the campaigns. Amazon SES’s services include benefits such as marketing communications to promote brands via newsletters or advertisements; receiving incoming emails through AWS Lambda or Amazon SNS; sending notifications, application alerts or system health reports and keeping customers updated by sending custom emails like shipping notifications, policy changes or purchase confirmations. Key features of Amazon SES include content personalization, ISP authentication, shared IP addresses, an email-sending activity tracker, sender reputation management, email receiving, a mailbox simulator and multiple email-sending interfaces. The platform integrates with various Amazon services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudWatch. > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 123 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 123 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Amazon Web Services - **Location**: Seattle, US - **Founded**: 2006 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$0.10 - **Pricing model**: (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: $0 - first 62,000 emails/each mo; $0.10 - every 1,000 emails after that. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - API - Campaign Management - Email Campaign Management - Email Management - Email Marketing - Email Monitoring - List Management - Personalisation - ROI Tracking - Response Management - Subscriber Management - Template Management ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Email Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/3433/email-tracking/software) ## Related Categories - [Email Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/3433/email-tracking/software) - [Marketing Systems](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4630/marketing/software) - [Email Marketing Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4697/email-marketing/software) - [Transactional Email Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4325/transactional-email/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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It is the way to go when you want to have bulk email at a fraction of the costs incurred with other competitors. It is extremely reliable and has the Amazon infrastructure to support it. The web console is simple yet provides you with the essentials to monitor the account's health and performance. > > **Cons**: Having migrated from Mailgun, I really felt the lack of proper development documentation when you are integrating for the first time. The current documentation is not well organized and lacks the developer friendlyness that you can find with competing products. However, this may have to do with a more general, bulk approach that Amazon focuses on. There are different versions of their APIs in the process of being migrated with the newer version being somewhat limited in features compared to the older one. My recommendation is that you get prepared to read a lot and test as you start to implement. I don't think you will be provided with bleeding edge email developments early but the basics will always be covered with Amazon SES. > > We are solving the need of simple, reliable bulk email that scales and delivers with confidence. ----- ### "Great relation price vs quality" — 5.0/5 > **Pedro** | *15 January 2024* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Price per 1k emails is incredible. As of this writing, we are talking about $0.10 per 1k emails sent, which is really now. > > **Cons**: Their support is getting worse. Very recently I had to wait a month until an account from one of our customers was finally approved and then a couple of months later, we had another customer that was rejected for no reason whatsoever and we had to escalate to have it into production. > > Overall the experience has been just great. The service simply works, although it's a little complex the first time to setup but once we get used to it (as with anything else in life), it's a little bit of work that is worth it for the price we pay for. ----- ### "No Support for Amazon Simple Email Service" — 3.0/5 > **Perry** | *17 December 2018* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 2.0/10 > > **Pros**: this is a very simple but capable email system that we tried to use and i have worked with others who have used it. the feature set is good, the speed is excellent and the ability to lease an IP and to have tiered levels is very good. It also has a good reputation dashboard so we know what is going on and how to make sure we get lots of emails through spam filters > > **Cons**: Spam filters eventually catch up to you. Also they provide no support via phone that is worthwhile. The support techs are condescending and not very helpful. They close cases very fast, they send pre-canned responses that do not answer the questions you ask, and it is useless to talk to them. We moved away from them after we could not get what we needed done. > > It was good to start, but frustrating once we wanted to go further and when we had any issues whatsoever. It was at the owners decision that we pulled the plug on this project once he listened in on our support call, once we did get someone to talk to us. ----- ### "Amazon Simple Email Service - does what it says on the tin" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *31 May 2021* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The pricing is amazing for such a great service. The API is well documented and SDKs are available for the most popular languages. If you are integrating with legacy systems where you have no API access and require an MTA to be configured that i also supported. There's a generous free tier available for smaller projects as well (so long as you are using either EC2 or Lambda to integrate). > > **Cons**: There's really not much to dislike about SES. A dashboard like Sendgrid provides would be a nice additional option but it's aimed at doing one thing and doing it well. > > I have used SES in multiple projects and it has proven itself to be a reliable service time and time again. The pricing is amazing and whilst you don't get all the bells and whistles other more fully featured services offer it does what it says on the tin. I've used it for multiple different projects utilising both API and SMTP connectivity and both have been solid. ----- ### "You can't beat the price to performance ratio" — 5.0/5 > **Angus** | *2 May 2022* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: I like how easy it is to get started with SES as well as how cheap and reliable the service is. > > **Cons**: The dashboard takes a bit of getting used to, but it's manageable > > My experience overall has been extremely positive, the price makes it the best tool out there for sending a lot of emails. Emails land straight in inbox as they should, and the tools to help manage bounces and complaints included are top notch. 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