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Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. SparkPost (discontinued)

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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

    SparkPost (discontinued)

    Score2.8 out of 10
    N/ASparkPost offered real-time analysis of email delivery and customer engagement as well as personalized email templates. The service has been discontinued.

    $30

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon SESSparkPost (discontinued)
    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
    Starter
    $30
    per month
    Premier
    $75
    per month
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon SESSparkPost (discontinued)
    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 SESSparkPost (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    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
    Discontinued Products
    Chose SparkPost (discontinued)
    I selected SparkPost based on the following factors:
    • low-cost basic subscription
    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
    No answers on this topic
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Amazon SESSparkPost (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (21 ratings)
    1.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)