Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 5.5 out of 10

Score

5.5 out of 10

Reviews

23 Reviews

Send transactional emails in a much better way using Amazon Simple Email Service

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 16, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were looking for a tool to send bulk promotional and transactional emails without putting them in spam, then we looked over Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). It offers various features which are not simple, as its name sounds. We can use their well-developed SDK to send emails via our server and our domain.

Pros

It has fair pricing, we do not have to loose our pockets just to send emails.
We can customize the emails according to our choice and set the default responses to senders.
It offers good reputed IPs, so generally our emails don't directly jump to the spam folder.

Cons

It would be great if they could help us to track the deliveries of the emails sent via SES.
For beginners, setting up Amazon Simple Email Service for the first time might be a little difficult task.
Might not that be good for a non-tech savvy person.

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.

Lav Nandan

Software Engineer in Information Technology at FlipPaisa (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Emails Management

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We integrate it into our website to get feedback or help the customers after the launch and it was great working using simple email service (SES). It was easy to set up. it is efficient to use. It is very cheap in cost as well. It was a great experience using it

Pros

It very cheap in cost.
it provide efficient monitoring for the quotas of our email limits.
It is very easy to configure set up and handle.

Cons

It is only hard when we need sandbox environment to setup because it is only provide on valid cases.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is difficult to set a Sandbox environment. In the SNS environment, we need to verify all emails we need to send emails and all emails we want to receive an email so it becomes difficult when we integrate it to a website where tons of emails are going to receive in it.

Zobia Khan

Jr. Devops Engineer in Engineering at IBG Consulting (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Amazon SES: Great, reliable and inexpensive service, but batteries not included!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 27, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon SES to send non-transactional (marketing) emails for our online services. It makes sense for us to keep transactional and non-transactional email routing totally separate, and Amazon SES allows that.

Pros

Deliverability reports
DKIM and Dmarc integration
Ease of integration with non-Amazon infrastructure

Cons

SES handles sending email really well, but receiving email part is very bare-bones. It can forward to HTTP endpoints, but cannot provide industry standard APIs like IMAP.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon SES is well-suited for a "do-it-yourself" mass-mailing solution, where fine control over mail delivery is required. Since mail server reputation affects deliverability greatly, and SES has a good reputation, it's a great fit for SMBs: mail server reputation cannot be built overnight. Amazon SES is not a turnkey solution, so significant internal expertise is required, and it cannot be compared to packaged services like Mailchimp.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Easy to go Email Notifications Service

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 27, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Simple Email Service to send out email notifications on different scenarios and different triggers like when EC2 shuts down due to crash. We also detect events like memory overflow on EC2, S3 bucket changes, and various fishing attacks on an EC2 instance.

Pros

Sends out email notifications
Pay as you use

Cons

Cannot send emails to unregistered users
Reporting section is weak

Likelihood to Recommend

We use Amazon Simple Email Service to auto-respond to users that submit messages through a contact form. We are using Amazon Simple Email Service with our self hosted python application to send our marketing emails, get feedback for our services, and Hackathons.

Verified User

Employee in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Amazon Simple Email Service will definitely improve your existing email delivery processes.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 6, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) on several client accounts as well as several of our own applications and services. We primarily use Amazon Simple Email Service to send informational emails related to status notifications, important updates, and information requests within different applications and services. We've implemented SES for as many as 50 domains and feel confident when recommending it to clients.

Pros

Amazon Simple Email Service is a much lower cost than most other solutions and truly makes cost a non-factor in most situations where we consider implementing it.
The API is so well documented that implementing Amazon Simple Email Service in nearly any application or codebase is achievable with basic coding knowledge.

Cons

While the service limits are one of the main points that keep the delivery metrics so reliable, it can be stressful to get a new implementation out the door quickly.
If you're looking for a point-and-click style email delivery tool, this is not the right type of product for you. Amazon Simple Email Service is for a developer-centric approach to implementation into existing applications, processes, and services.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Simple Email Service is an excellent choice for integrating high-volume or important email delivery into an existing application, service, or custom established workflow in your organization. If you have a true development group looking for a seamless way of handling email delivery, this is the right product for you. It's easiest to set up if you're already using other AWS services such as Route53 for DNS but can function as a standalone service. However, if you're expecting a product that was designed to do all of its intended functions from a user interface, that's not what Amazon Simple Email Service was intended to be.

Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

My experience with Amazon SES

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 12, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to send newsletters from our company. And we have installed it to a lot of clients, integrated with PHP email scripts (that we made ourselves) so they can send emails too. We have users with more than 1 million mails sent per day. It's very useful because delivery is fast and it's easy to integrate with PHP scripts.

Pros

High percentage of deliverability.
Cost savings.

Cons

They could have a list of bounced emails so it's easy for the sender to delete those emails from databases.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's not for spam. They have a limit for bounced emails, so you must have your email lists clean and updated.

Francisco Mosse

Director in Professional Services at Efemosse Sistemas (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Easy to use!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 5, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We decide to use Amazon Simple Email Service for our email service, as we were having all of our infrastructure running in AWS, and we really think this was the best move. Working on a specific web application and we need it to send emails, so for developers was really easy to interact with AWS SDK for implementing the changes. For operation, this was a great option also, as the price is really low, and this is a great plus compare to other services in the market.

Pros

If you're running your applications in a EC2, the first 62,000 emails are free.
Pay as you go is a great feature.

Cons

No cons! Great service and and easy to use.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you're working with an AWS infrastructure this is the best move, as you will get great benefits from using it and your development team will feel that they know what they're doing. If you're not using AWS, this probably can be a problem, as you will not get the 62,000 emails for free, or developers will feel a little strange working with different technologies.

Diego Turcios Lara

Devops Engineer in Information Technology at Acklen Avenue (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Once configured, SES is the reliable, cost-effective choice

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 4, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SES both internally and for customers. Internally it is used for our website contact forms and other internal applications.

We have used SES with several customers for the past 8 or so years.

SES solves one of the most common annoyances in programming. Email deliverability. With SES (configured correctly) we have no issues with spam filters.

Pros

SES is highly reliable. Haven't had any issues that I know of.
It is extremely cost effective. Most of the time we stay under the free tier which is nice!
Once set up, it's pretty much hands free. Haven't had to adjust old code... ever.

Cons

As with most AWS services, you're on your own unless you pay for support. So there is a learning curve, but nothing major.
Although things may have changed, I haven't seen any email templates. Again, that may have changed.

Likelihood to Recommend

SES is great when you have an online form that needs to send email. It's bullet proof and can handle large loads.

I probably wouldn't use SES for a smaller temporary use case. There is configuration needed with SES and potential (tiny) costs.

Generally, I have one configuration that I use for most forms unless I expect high traffic. In that case I keep it separate.

Joe Hakooz

Owner in Information Technology at Innovah LLC (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Fast and simple setup

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 4, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Amazon SES for mailing forms from websites. I've found delivery to be very reliable and much faster than standard phpmailer. It's quite easy to set-up and verify your domain, and emails still deliver as if they came from your website.

Pros

Speedy delivery - usually in seconds
Easy setup - just a few minutes per domain
Inexpensive to use - few dollars a month for reliable service

Cons

The set-up interface could be made simpler. Some things aren't intuitive.
It's not easy to find from the AWS menus.
A simple testing script would be nice, but I've never had trouble using it.

Likelihood to Recommend

Perfect for website forms. Never used it elsewhere, but for form delivery it can't beat it. Even WordPress has plugins that make hook-up very simple and straightforward.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Best Email Service for AWS ecosystem.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 17, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are starting to use the AWS ecosystem for different developments. So for our department in our organization our demos are hosted on AWS and we are sending all the outbound emails using AWS SES. The benefit of this is we don't have to set up an SMTP server and we can directly use this feature with no extra efforts.

Pros

No SMTP server setup if already in AWS ecosystem
Quick and Easy setup & integration
Pay as you use - no extra cost

Cons

Always verifies the email before you can it. Hectic process.
Email template facility is not available.

Likelihood to Recommend

In our demos, we try sending the reports to the email ids from which the user is logged in. Our demos are hosted on AWS ECS and the whole demo works on the AWS ecosystem. So to send the reports we use AWS SES as it is in the same ecosystem, no extra SMTP configuration needed and it is very easy. So in this way, we use SES for many demos and other use as well.

Jay Momaya

Software Engineer in Research & Development at Infostretch (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Amazon Simple Email Service will definitely improve your existing email delivery processes.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 6, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Amazon Simple Email Service is a much lower cost than most other solutions and truly makes cost a non-factor in most situations where we consider implementing it.
The API is so well documented that implementing Amazon Simple Email Service in nearly any application or codebase is achievable with basic coding knowledge.

Cons

While the service limits are one of the main points that keep the delivery metrics so reliable, it can be stressful to get a new implementation out the door quickly.
If you're looking for a point-and-click style email delivery tool, this is not the right type of product for you. Amazon Simple Email Service is for a developer-centric approach to implementation into existing applications, processes, and services.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience