--- title: Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) Reviews meta\_title: 'Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 203 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 203 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Marketing url: https://www.g2.com/categories/marketing --- # Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) but has limited features. Are you part of the Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cloud-based email platform designed to facilitate high-volume email communications for businesses and developers. It enables users to send transactional emails, marketing messages, and newsletters without the need to manage complex email infrastructure. With Amazon SES, you pay only for the emails you send, making it a cost-effective solution for organizations of all sizes. Key Features and Functionality: - High-Volume Email Sending: Amazon SES supports the delivery of large-scale email campaigns, handling over a trillion emails annually for clients like Netflix and Duolingo. - Flexible Deployment Options: Users can choose between shared, dedicated, or owned IP addresses, allowing for tailored email sending strategies. - Email Deliverability Tools: The service offers tools to monitor sender statistics and improve email deliverability, ensuring messages reach recipients' inboxes. - Integration with AWS Services: Amazon SES seamlessly integrates with other AWS services, such as Amazon S3 for email storage and AWS Lambda for processing incoming emails. - Security and Compliance: The platform provides features like Mail Manager to protect and automate incoming emails, ensuring security and compliance control. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: Amazon SES simplifies the process of sending and receiving emails by eliminating the need for businesses to build and maintain their own email infrastructure. It offers a scalable, reliable, and secure solution that ensures compliance and efficiency at competitive prices. By leveraging Amazon SES, organizations can focus on their core operations while effectively managing their email communications. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) Community](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-simple-email-service-amazon-ses/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Santosh Sharma Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Amazon. ### Email Messages $0.10 per 1,000 email ### Data Transfer $0.00 [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-simple-email-service-amazon-ses/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Brevo Marketing Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Brevo Marketing Platform") Brevo Marketing Platform 4.5/5(2,621) ](https://www.g2.com/products/brevo-marketing-platform/reviews) [ ![Email API](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Email API") Email API 4.4/5(733) ](https://www.g2.com/products/netcore-private-limited-email-api/reviews) [ ![Twilio SendGrid Email API](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Twilio SendGrid Email API") Twilio SendGrid Email API 4/5(368) ](https://www.g2.com/products/twilio-sendgrid-email-api/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-simple-email-service-amazon-ses/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 203 real user reviews. 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SEO Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/28/2020 "Cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? How it makes it so easy to engage with all your amazon customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? Sometimes it might be a bit difficult to organise your emails if you have a large customer base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES): Essential if you plan on selling through amazon and providing a better service than the average. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) solving and how is that benefiting you? Clearing customer doubts, sending transactional emails and marketing materials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SB Shagun B. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/19/2019 "Great Email Sending Tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? The emails are signed by Amazon digitally which helps them to pass through the security of mail boxes and not be treated as a spam, thus it enables businesses to send mails to customer inbox directly without passing them to spam folders. Also, the service is very easy to setup and operate. Highly recommended to anyone who is starting a business and needs a email solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? There is nothing I dislike about it, only thing is they keep a hard watch on the bounce rate. If the delivery rate is not maintained and it goes below 95%, we are marked as red. Though I understand that is a security measure to stop spammers but in some cases it causes the users to be very cautious and not unleash the real big potential of this service. Just keep checking the rate and avoid running email campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) solving and how is that benefiting you? We are notifying customers of their registration and entire life cycle of the user once he enters our system. All features that require a user to interact are taken care of by SES mail service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite RL Rino L. Linux engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/7/2019 "The best SMTP server in the field to avoid ending up on a blacklist" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? If your company, like the one I work for, needs to send a large volume of emails to users of various providers, such as in the case of email marketing to newsletter subscribers or an ecommerce platform: Amazon SES will be extremely useful in every single phase, from designing the campaigns entirely graphically without the need for knowledge of HTML programming languages, to the reports on email deliverability, ensuring your campaign hits the mark without stressing your corporate SMTP server but delegating AWS SES to send on behalf of your domain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? The configuration of DKIM records requires verification by an AWS operator, which sometimes extends for an entire week, lengthening the waiting times for those who may need to immediately launch a campaign or for those who just want to try the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) solving and how is that benefiting you? I avoided ending up on the blacklist or in the spam/junk folder of major international email domains thanks to the DKIM, SPF, and DMARC checks implemented by Amazon SES on all outgoing emails that use the outgoing server assigned to the user, really useful for avoiding losing the good reputation of my domain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 inviteAI Translated ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") IF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/27/2020 "Make Work Easy!" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? The ease of marketing which is provided by utilizing Amazon. SES. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? There is a learning curve without paid tech support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES): N/A Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) solving and how is that benefiting you? Marketing current services is much easier and much more cost efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/26/2019 "One of the popular emailing solution and the easiest one." 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? - Pay for what you use, so our company has no extra or fixed cost - Reliable as our team has never faced a failure of delivering the email services if configured properly - Easy documentation so configuration is also easy - Its also provides feature like Spam filtering, Email tracking, etc - Provides all the major languages support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? - Cannot send email to unverified emails - Different AWS service integration is a little bit tricky Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES): If you have your some of the system integrated in AWS then you don't need to worry about integration of emailing services and you should go for SES always. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) solving and how is that benefiting you? - Our team has used SES at multiple occasions, like we have created a project where to send the notification directly to users we use AWS SES and we have also verified our users also. - Another demo was we were sending the email as a final transcript of the conversation or final receipt of the task that demo used to perform and we send it over email. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Caiden P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Caiden P.") CP Caiden P. Marketing And Public Relations Specialist Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/14/2019 "Send automatic emails to your consumers" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? Amazon SES is a straightforward service with useful features. It makes the sending of hundreds of emails from recognized email systems so simple you no longer have to be concerned of your computer's IP address becomes blacklisted. Also, it is really easy to implement the product and to train our staff. When needed, it indicates when you must also do more extra work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? It has no too many features that I honestly think it needs, for doing open identification or tap sensors. There nothing else I dislike about Amazon SES Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES): Amazon SES is perfect to outsource any creation of email. This may be an option in which you may have authentication data reset emails with passwords, promotional e-mails, etc. The disadvantage of this tool is that you have to construct, adjust and preserve a computer email pipeline with resources yourself, but if you can't take that risk, you may want to use a SaaS product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) solving and how is that benefiting you? Amazon SES gives us the ability to send automatic emails to our consumers. In case they are unable to log in, lose their code and need to update the key, we can then use Amazon SES as service to solve this problem. This makes life easier for programmers because they have only one email client, independent of the network from which the email originates. Since it was implemented in my company, it has boost user server features, especially if it's viewed from elsewhere in AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SP shridhar P. Technical Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/14/2019 "SES Highly Scalable Service" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? We use SES to receive huge number of emails. Number goes into 10's of millions daily. The rate at which SES can receive emails is just amazing. We take half day to day to process all those emails while SES can receive emails in real time and in our case place it on S3. If price is not the constrain then one of the best service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? Cost, though its just $0.10 for 1000 emails and looks cheap but when the email to be processed goes into 100's of millions in a month the bill shoots up. Otherwise no other complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) solving and how is that benefiting you? We need to receive large number of emails coming in from various locations. SES does a really good job doing that for us. The service is scalable, reliable and consistent. The ease of setting up the service is also pretty simple. We also use SES for sending emails for certain monitoring notification but that usage is minimal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite GA Gaetano A. DevOps Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/13/2019 "The best high-reliability SMTP server for IT alerting and corporate-level team paging" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? Amazon SES easily allows sending a large volume of emails with high reliability hosted across different availability zones of AWS data centers, making it an excellent tool for executing the sending (usually automated by monitoring and intrusion control tools when they detect triggers related to out-of-threshold values) to specific email addresses and teams that will need to handle the technical intervention or the engagement of other people. It thus allows with total security to entrust your human resource engagement system in case of emergency or disaster to an SMTP server provided by Amazon (with the latest security standards currently available in the world), thereby ensuring 100% secure reception on corporate and non-corporate email boxes that might mark similar emails as spam, especially in the case of multiple alerts generated by multiple triggers. SES is simply perfect and can be configured in about 10 minutes and a few clicks to verify the domain from which to send. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? DKIM verification is unfortunately mandatory even though it has not been a value recently considered by many international mail providers. Without it, it is impossible to proceed, but many providers and domain DNS panels do not allow the addition of DKIM records, which practically leaves users unable to use SES unless they purchase a domain or transfer the current one. I understand AWS's concerns regarding the use of SES for sending spam if there were no DKIM, but I do not accept the restriction of having to use it by force. This decreases my overall rating of the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) solving and how is that benefiting you? Thanks to Amazon SES, I obtained an SMTP server, thus outbound, which I can configure with the best and latest security standards in my clients, my monitoring applications, my IDPS firewalls, and my hardware products that need to use an SMTP server to send notifications and alerts related to events triggered by triggers. The reception is almost immediate, and the costs are low considering that using a local SMTP server could cause problems if it also were to lose connectivity during an event that needs to be notified to the teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 inviteAI Translated AA Amara A. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/18/2020 "Amazon SES can be made simple with Send With SES." 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? AWS SES is as low as email pricing can get without sacrificing deliverability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? It's complicated to setup SES because it involves wrangling with a lot of AWS services and api's. I suggest you use a wrapper service like sendwithses.com or if you don't mind using your own servers, you can use sendy.com Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES): AWS SES can get needlessly complicated for the average user. If you are an AWS developer, i suggest you jump right in. If you are not, i suggest you use sendwithses.com or sendy.com (with sendy you will need to install it on your own server). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) solving and how is that benefiting you? Majorly cost benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Tyson R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tyson R.") TR Tyson R. Marketing Staff Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/6/2019 "Send mass emails with Amazon SES" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? Amazon SES increases the probability for an email to hit a client mailbox and not the spam directory, as it provides DKIM signage for all calls. With DKIM help, we could send top quality e-mails without caring about firewalls as much as possible. Also, high confidence-messages are provided by this tool. It makes pretty simple to require emails from the complete domains to be sent. In general, Amazon SES quality is just awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)? Amazon SES does not allow you to send embedded objects to an e-mail address, This is a huge problem, so it's easier to save them internally if you want to pass them along. Also, it has an extensive API learning curve, but it can be simplified dramatically with the SMTP authorization function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES): If your business depends on e-mail, I would recommend you to use Amazon SES. However, consider this is only a good option if you have some programmers who have the technology to make it type of service precious, but if you don't know how to read API software or how DNS records function, then it may not be suitable for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) solving and how is that benefiting you? In my business, it is necessary to send mass emails for marketing purposes, and after searching and testing other solutions, we decided to stay with Amazon SES. No only its price is nearly insignificant, but its simplicity makes it useful for all members of the Marketing department and Sales department. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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