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Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. Microsoft Exchange

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon SES

    Score5.2 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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

    Microsoft Exchange

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Exchange is a secure email / messaging gateway with file archiving and encryption / data loss capability, available as a hosted service (Exchange Online) or installed (Exchange Server).N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon SESMicrosoft Exchange
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon SESMicrosoft Exchange
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon SESMicrosoft Exchange
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Exchange
    In comparison to Amazon SES, Microsoft Exchange was significantly more flexible and customizable. Amazon SES seems more complicated from an administrative standpoint. It became more difficult for us to consider migrating to a new platform since our workers were more comfortable …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Exchange
    Microsoft Exchange has the most features in one package, and also has the best integration with the rest of our tool set.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Exchange
    Microsoft Exchange is better at connecting with different Microsoft products and has a lot more freatures.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Exchange
    Easy to use for the features you get without having to configure a server.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Exchange
    Honestly, there are very few other enterprise-level email servers that I know about other than the basic gmail, yahoo, Hotmail, and just hosting it yourself. You either can get away with a very basic mail server, or your business needs true enterprise-level functions. If your …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon SESMicrosoft Exchange
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) and Microsoft Exchange
    Feature
    Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
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    Ratings
    Microsoft Exchange
    8.1
    80 Ratings
    Anti-malware00 Ratings8.163 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings7.975 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection00 Ratings8.665 Ratings
    Threat Detection00 Ratings8.064 Ratings
    Sandboxing00 Ratings7.444 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings8.364 Ratings
    Management Tools00 Ratings8.477 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon SESMicrosoft Exchange
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (21 ratings)
    8.8
    (98 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    9.9
    (12 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)