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Amazon SES

Ch 316.4of 41Transactional Email Software
  1. 1Runs onAPI, Web
  2. 2Costsfree trial
  3. 3Inbound emailYes
  4. 4Delivery event webhooksYes
  5. 5SMTP relayYes
  6. 6Email templatesYes
  7. 7Dedicated IP optionYes
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Overview

Amazon SES is ranked #31 of 41 in transactional email software on Specifiction. It runs on API, Web. A free trial is offered.

Amazon SES plans and pricing

All plans
Pro Per 1,000 emails sent or processed, plus per-account, per-region fee 0–10M emails/month: $0.22 per 1,000 emails · 10–100M: $0.17 per 1,000 · >100M: $0.12 per 1,000 · $105 per account per region per month aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
À la carte pricing Pay for usage; billed separately for sending, receiving, data, and additional features No minimum fees or mandatory service usage · Outbound email: $0.10 / 1,000 emails · Inbound email: $0.10 / 1,000 emails aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
Essentials Per 1,000 emails sent or processed; tiered monthly rates 0–10M emails/month: $0.16 per 1,000 emails · 10–100M: $0.14 per 1,000 · >100M: $0.11 per 1,000 · No per-account monthly fee aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
Enterprise Per 1,000 emails sent or processed, plus per-account, per-region fee 0–10M emails/month: $0.23 per 1,000 emails · 10–100M: $0.18 per 1,000 · >100M: $0.13 per 1,000 · $500 per account per region per month aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026

Compared on transactional email software

Free plan
Noaws.amazon.com
Inbound email
Yesaws.amazon.com
Delivery event webhooks
Yesaws.amazon.com
SMTP relay
Yesaws.amazon.com
Email templates
Yesaws.amazon.com
Dedicated IP option
Yesaws.amazon.com

Facts

Product
Amazon SES is a cloud-based email service for sending and receiving high-volume transactional, marketing, and newsletter email.aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
Sending methods
Email can be sent through the SES console, SMTP interface, or SES API, accessed with the AWS CLI or an AWS SDK.aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
Deliverability
Virtual Deliverability Manager provides email performance insights, recommendations, and optional automatic implementation of improvements.aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
Global resilience
Global Endpoints can distribute sending across two AWS Regions and shift traffic away from an impaired Region automatically.aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
Mail Manager
Mail Manager provides tools to manage incoming and outgoing organizational email, with security and data-protection compliance controls.aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
Authentication and private access
SES supports DKIM, SPF, and DMARC and can expose its SMTP endpoint to a VPC through AWS PrivateLink.aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
Reputation monitoring
The SES reputation dashboard tracks bounces, feedback loops, and other deliverability events, and publishes bounce and complaint metrics to CloudWatch.aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
Testing
The mailbox simulator can test successful delivery, hard bounces, out-of-office responses, and feedback without affecting sender reputation.aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
Integrations
AWS documentation describes integrations with EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, SNS, Route 53, IAM, S3, Lambda, KMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Data Firehose, Redshift, and OpenSearch Service.docs.aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
Security responsibility
AWS describes SES security as a shared responsibility, with AWS securing the cloud infrastructure and customers responsible for security in the cloud based on their service use and data needs.docs.aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026
Audience
AWS presents SES for developers and businesses that send transactional messages, marketing campaigns, newsletters, or email from applications.aws.amazon.com · 7 Oct 2026

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