Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) is AWS's low-cost, pay-as-you-go service for high-volume transactional and bulk email sending. It targets teams already on AWS, with a free allowance when sending from EC2. SES is a low-level, API-first building block: you bring your own templates and reputation management rather than a managed marketing suite, so it is transactional-focused without marketing-campaign features. It supports inbound email receiving as well. Backed by AWS, it carries a broad compliance set including SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2011
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Email API
- Free tier
- Yes: Low pay-as-you-go ($0.10 per 1,000 emails); free allowance when sending from EC2.
- Transactional
- Yes
- Marketing
- No
- Inbound parsing
- Yes
- Deliverability focus
- No
- API-first
- Yes