Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. Google Workspace

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Google Workspace

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon SES	Score 5.3 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is an outbound-only email-sending service useful for marketing and transactional email, relying on the infrastructure of Amazon. Amazon SES provides the requisite statistics and built-in notifications for bounces, complaints, and deliveries for optimization of campaigns. Emails are sent via SMTP or the Amazon SES API. Amazon's pricing is per usage, presently at $.10 per thousand sends. The service is free for users of Amazon EC2 (up to 62,000 messages),…	$0.10 for emails after the first 1,000
Google Workspace	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	Google Workspace enables teams of all sizes to connect, create and collaborate. It includes productivity and collaboration tools for work: Gmail for custom business email, Drive for cloud storage, Docs for word processing, Meet for video and voice conferencing, Chat for team messaging, Slides for presentation building, and shared Calendars.	$6 per user/per month

Pricing

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Google Workspace

Editions & Modules

Sending Emails from an Application Hosted in Amazon EC2: $0.10 ($0.12)
for every 1,000 emails after 62,000 (for each GB of storage)
Sending Emails from Another Email Client or Software Package: $0.10 ($0.12)
for every 1,000 emails (for each GB of storage)
Receiving Email: $0.10
for emails after the first 1,000
Sending Emails from an Application Hosted in Amazon EC2: Free
for first 62,000 emails
Receiving Email: Free
for the first 1,000 emails

Business Starter: $6
per user/per month
Business Standard: $12
per user/per month
Business Plus: $18
per user/per month
Enterprise: Contact sales team

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon SES	Google Workspace
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)	Google Workspace
Considered Both Products	Amazon SES LN Lav Nandan Software Engineer Chose Amazon SES Amazon Simple Email Service is much better in terms of customization and has fair pricing. Incentivized Helpful? Zobia Khan Jr. Devops Engineer Chose Amazon SES Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon SES Mailchimp has a fixed monthly price, and with the number of emails that we sent, it's pretty expensive. Since our mailings are quite infrequent, using Mailchimp didn't make financial sense for us, even though Mailchimp is a more polished, packaged solution for email marketing. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon SES We have not used any other alternatives. Incentivized Helpful? Francisco Mosse Director Chose Amazon SES We have used a dozen services. They are almost all more expensive. Some force you to wait one week to approve/deny your account if they suspect that the email database is not legal. I have very important clients with legal databases that were rejected by other companies and … Incentivized Helpful? Diego Turcios Lara Devops Engineer Chose Amazon SES We really thought of using Mail Chimp, and have used it before in the past, but the advantage of Amazon Simple Email Service is that we were using AWS infrastructure for these web applications. We had the instances running in EC2, our database was an RDS and Logs Cloudwatch, so … Incentivized Helpful? JH Joe Hakooz Owner Chose Amazon SES Although I like the email template capability with these other services, and one of them is actually a customer, the simplicity, reliability, and cost effectiveness of SES keeps it at the top of the list. Not to mention, we use so many other services at AWS, the integration is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon SES I haven't used others in this space. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon SES I'd recommend SendGrid and Mailchimp to most smaller business that can't dedicate engineers solely to their email pipeline. The price/value ration is fair and the tools are fairly flexible for the intended use cases. It's often a good idea to start to start there and only pivot … Incentivized Helpful? Luis Escoffié Consultor de Marketing Digital Chose Amazon SES The process of setting up Amazon was really easy and straightforward compared to Mandrill. And right now Mandrill is an add-on in MailChimp, so no longer a real alternative. Incentivized Helpful? Dave Stack Member Chose Amazon SES I also use Sendgrid for sending all my transactional emails. It is more expensive than SES, but I feel it is more reliable with a better reputation than SES. I have also used Mailgun, but they are more expensive than SES and deliverability on a shared IP are as bad as SES. Incentivized Helpful? Anindya Chatterjee CEO Chose Amazon SES In terms of ease of use, Gmail is the best. But, SES is preferred because there is no rate limit and it is so inexpensive. If you want list management, image embed capability, and easy setup, SES is not for you. You need to be technically sound and have a thorough understanding … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon SES Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Amazon Elastic MapReduce Incentivized Helpful? Arnas Kazlauskas IT Customer Support Specialist Chose Amazon SES I've selected Amazon SES due to two factors. First of all, the price is really competitive. I haven't seen a better price and if you did, please send me an email. The second factor was that I do not need all those functions to track the subscriptions, sales, reports because I … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Schroeder Full Stack Developer Chose Amazon SES SES is a much lower level technical tool than the other solutions we've used in the past with the exception of Mailgun. We've found SES to actually be much easier to use than Mailgun, although not as powerful. A good way to explain the difference between Mailchimp, Constant … Incentivized Helpful? D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. Owner and CEO Chose Amazon SES Amazon SES is bare-bones, insofar as it will not "help" you with the contents of your message. You cannot use variables in the e-mail, it will not automatically track whether or not the recipient opened the mail or not, it will not help with unsubscribe links, and it will not … Incentivized Helpful? RS Ranu Singh Technology Manager Chose Amazon SES They have fix cost and not pay per use model like Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) and moreover selecting best suited plan is also difficult as per our organisation use case. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon SES Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a product you know will be there long term, without changing hands or drastic changes in pricing or feature set. Incentivized Helpful?	Google Workspace Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace I've used Microsoft Teams (and sometimes still do for client projects with Teams being the client's workspace), but I find it to be a difficult and cumbersome work environment to manage and navigate. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Weisel Chief Technology Officer Chose Google Workspace Google Workspace offers many more collaboration tools then the Microsoft products. Although the Microsoft products are familiar to so many people, picking up The Google suite of tools is easy. Google also allows us to truly be in the cloud and work from any device from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace never looked at anyone else - we knew Google Workspace was right for us! Incentivized Helpful? KT Kisha Tan sales consultant Chose Google Workspace We used before on my previous role Microsoft teams where you can only casually exchange messages, but Google Workspace allows me to access all the applications that I need in just once access without closing the window that I'm currently working on and it can be used to email … Incentivized Helpful? Russ Michaels Jedi Master Chose Google Workspace I find Workspace easier to use and manage, better security, and the gmail interface and features is way better. Plus 3rd party integrations. Support sucks though from my experience. Most other email solutions do not enforce authentication and domain alignment or have MFA, which … Incentivized Helpful? Janet Ramos Account Manager Chose Google Workspace It is like a one stop shop for all the software needed at work. Easy to create an account and easy to access. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace Google Workspace huge advantage is the interface that everyone is familiar with (from using personal Google services). Also, the administration panel is straightforward and easy to use - does not require expert tech knowledge to move around. As a result, it is a perfect tool … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace Simpler onboarding and most used tool by SMEs Incentivized Helpful? Siddharth Kohli Manager Labs Network & Operations Chose Google Workspace Google Workspace is your all in one go-to tool. No other product offers the versatility and a large selection of tools like Google workspace does. Gmail is incredibly faster than any other email client available out there, and some tools like Google Spreadsheets have replaced … Incentivized Helpful? Muzaffar Mohammed Senior Analyst Chose Google Workspace Though Microsoft offers some great ideas to help you better your work, I believe Google tops Microsoft in the area of office applications. Google mail, Google Sheets, Google forms, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Google Video Meetings are easy to use to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace Google Drive blows Dropbox out of the water by making its shared assets accessible without requiring app installs and paid subscriptions for outside users. The speed at which it handles all of your stored assets makes it advantageous for demanding projects in the music and film … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace Google Workspace's web-based word processing apps are much more robust than Microsoft's equivalent. For example, multiple users working on a single google docs document will very rarely run into issues with synching or continuity, whereas Microsoft's online Word is not as … Incentivized Helpful? RD Rodney Dore Director of Cloud Delivery Chose Google Workspace Slack has more IT functional integrations that Google Chat/Spaces at this time. It is being used in more of a "shadow IT" configuration currently with a limited set of paid licenses. Facebook for business was missing key integrations and with Google Spaces/Currents, it was … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace Google Workspace is a formidable opponent to Microsoft 365. It provides all of the solutions that 365 does, but does it with more finesse. I find it easier to navigate Google Workspace than I do 365, especially when comparing Google Drive to Microsoft OneDrive. Google Drive is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace I've used Office 365 in the past, along with some of Zoho's tools, and none of them have delivered the experience that I get from Google Workspace. Office 365 was slow and cumbersome when I evaluated it, and the interoperability of Google apps far surpasses that which I can get … Incentivized Helpful? Mike Calabro Photographer: Commercial, Advertising and Editorial Chose Google Workspace There are lots of things that Microsoft 365 does better than Workspace. The problem is that I am stuck in the Google world. It would take way too much time and energy to change platforms. There are lots of other options to choose from but none of them are perfect. Workspace is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace The tools are similar, however, in Excel and Sheets specifically, Microsoft is much more useful in transforming and manipulating a lot of data. Incentivized Helpful? Andy Abramson CEO and Founder Chose Google Workspace From an ease of use standpoint, Google Workspace is far simpler and easier to use. It offers what we need where Office offers too much of each app/service adding complexity over convenience. Our prior use of Office and even some occasional use of 365 just as a backup is often … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Salvetti Controller Chose Google Workspace I believe Google tops Microsoft in all areas EXCEPT the office applications. I prefer Gmail, Drive, and Google Video Meetings to Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams meetings, but that could just be me. In my experience, it has been easier to use these applications without much trouble … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace We previously used Zoho Suite free tier. Deliverability was good and their spam protection was almost as good as Google's. The one drawback to Zoho was the inability to host more than one domain. Zoho's paid tier is cheaper than Google's, but [I feel] you don't get the same … Incentivized Helpful? Kristi Porter Chief Do-Gooder Chose Google Workspace There are lots of competitors to various tools in Workspace, like Meet versus Zoom. However, Microsoft is the other big competitor I can think of for Google Workspace as a whole. To me, at least, the strength of Workspace is how easy it is to share and collaborate with others. … Incentivized Helpful? Jordan Harnum Sales Development Representative Chose Google Workspace Microsoft Office 365 - I like Google better because of the overall usability and simpler interface. This was made most apparent for me when I compared the calendars - Outlook calendar is not as user friendly as Google. Google makes navigation, events, reminders etc. easier to … Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Grudowski Product Development Engineer Chose Google Workspace Google Workspace is far superior to any email client or storage system on the market. Google Workspace combines everything good about each of these other services and then adds some additional features to make it the best all around productivity system out there. The best part … Incentivized Helpful? Dana Friedman CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Google Workspace They are different. Over the years, one has had better support than the other. Google support is good, there have been times Microsoft support was awful, and times when it was significantly better. For me, Outlook is just a drain on resources. Word is that my primary word … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace We decided to use Google Workspace [(formerly G Suite)] because of the breadth of services offered, no need to purchase or manage a large corporate infrastructure to run all the services, it is extremely easy to get up and running in a matter of minutes, and the cost of service … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)	Google Workspace
Small Businesses	Mailjet Score 9.0 out of 10	Microsoft 365 Business Premium Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Mailjet Score 9.0 out of 10	Microsoft 365 Business Premium Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises	No answers on this topic	Microsoft 365 Business Premium Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)	Google Workspace
Likelihood to Recommend	7.9 (0 ratings)	9.6 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.5 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (0 ratings)	2.2 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)	Google Workspace
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon Simple Email Service comes with the bundle of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and it also offers a limited number of emails per month for free. One who has a technical background and wants to send custom emails with custom domains in a professional way can go with Amazon Simple Email Service. If you have no technical background or tech team, it might not be useful for you. Incentivized LN Lav Nandan Software Engineer Read full review	Since our company is structured around Google Workspace at the moment, it is well suited for our entire workflow. I do have concerns though, for when it comes time for our company to have our own intranet built and how well the data migration will be from Google Workspace to that intranet that gets built. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	As compare to other vendors that I have integrated response is very quick. You can verify both domain or email to send out the emails from. While setup you can easily configure it with your domain with few clicks like adding CNAME, DKIM records Easy to use with or without access key and secret key within aws servers. You can directly map permissions to servers to go without credentials using boto3. Incentivized RS Ranu Singh Technology Manager Read full review	It's terrific to have a suite of products that is built to work together, rather than having to piece tools together. The email and calendar are the tools I use most often together. I use Gmail through Apple Mail rather than in the browser, and it works great. Also really easy to access and use my calendar. I use the other suite of features both for my own company internally and to share files with clients. Super easy to use and share. Incentivized Kristi Porter Chief Do-Gooder Read full review
Cons	Even if you do not want to spam, you cant send an email to the unverified users. Integration with other services is a bit tricky. To watch the trail, handle bounced emails, save emails on S3 are not straightforward to implement. When you want to send a lot of emails (in bulk), it takes a significant amount of time. Incentivized Apurv Doshi Senior Solutions Architect Read full review	A single Google Workspace user should be able to have more than one Google Voice phone number (ideally) At times, Google Meet seems a little clumsy (but I think they're about to address that with the new release...It may or may not be better. Who knows? :)) Some screen layouts are a tad clumsy, but they are sufficiently malleable that once one gets the hang of it, one can customize the environment quite a bit. A viable (for small business), relatively-inexpensive, virtual desktop that would include/could include a Windows license or, at least close-to-perfect emulation. It would be great if there was accommodation for those who send out a great deal of mail in a given day. Not everyone who does that is a spammer. Although, by Google standards, and relative to some others, Google allows for sending out a good bit of mail, for those who do mass volumes and would prefer not to have their own mail server, it would be good if Google could find a way to accommodate them. Incentivized Dana Friedman CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	There is no better solution for cloud storage and real time collaboration. The amount of features included in G Suite is unmatched and out of other things we’ve tried over the years, nothing comes close to being as great of a tool. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	1. Very less cost. 2. Fastest in market. 3. Negligible downtime. 4. Easy to integrate with other systems. 5. Easy to setup with your domain and email. Incentivized RS Ranu Singh Technology Manager Read full review	On the user end, it's great, probably some of the most user friendly products out there. On the admin side, it can get a little more arcane, but it's still better than a lot of other services. At worst I wrangle some CSVs to perform mass changes, but it's a far cry from the days of Powershell scripts or purely manual entry. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	We did not have the need of contacting Amazon for support. The documentation they provide is of great quality. Examples are easy to follow. One thing to have into consideration is we didn't have the premium support for AWS, so I can't provide details on how good or bad this service is, but in general, the basic support I had was great. Incentivized Diego Turcios Lara Devops Engineer Read full review	I have not had to use much support for G Suite, but I imagine it would be a great service, as is everything else that Google provides. I've searched for questions through the help center, and that was easy to use and easy to find. I'm sure I would have no complaints. Incentivized EW Emily Williams Mental Coach Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	nothing to say Russ Michaels Jedi Master Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Mailchimp has a fixed monthly price, and with the number of emails that we sent, it's pretty expensive. Since our mailings are quite infrequent, using Mailchimp didn't make financial sense for us, even though Mailchimp is a more polished, packaged solution for email marketing. We evaluated other email delivery solutions as well and didn't find anything that matches Amazon SES on reliability and pricing. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We selected Google Workspace for it's ease of use and clean UI. Microsoft Office granted does have a lot of features and may be more advanced in certain areas (Excel vs sheets), however for the range of functions we need, google workspace provided the necessary features for an affordable price. In particular Outlook compared to Gmail is more outdated and clunky, and I have found more issues with Outlook's deliverability in the past than I do with Gmail. Meet is also much more modern and clean, with useful features like record and Gemini that feel much cleaner than Teams. I have also found that inviting external users (ones that don't use the same workspace as you) is much easier through google meet than teams calls. Drive also has a much cleaner UI, and easier to adopt than OneDrive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon Simple Email Service has improved delivery rates and eliminated delivery issues everywhere we have impelmented it. We have been able to enforce stricter security within our application environments because we are using Amazon Simple Email Service instead of handling email transmissions natively. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Google Workspace costs us a little more, but our inboxes are safer for it. Our email deliverability has improved significantly. No more lost or bounced emails with our invoices attached. Workspace helps us get paid! Our support requests for undelivered email has disappeared. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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