Amazon SES

Cloud service for sending transactional and marketing emails at scale.

MIXEDMarketing

Pricing

Paid

Learning curve

Moderate

Time to value

Days

BEST FORSmall TeamGrowing Business

WORKS FOR

Transactional email, Sending mail at a low cost, Underlying email sending infrastructure for other platforms

KEY INSIGHT

It's a low-cost infrastructure service for transactional email, not a ready-to-use marketing platform.

DOESN'T WORK FOR

Direct use for email marketing campaigns

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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

“Amazon SES sending us a warning about complaint numbers that woke us up to it”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-02
“I hope I can migrate away from Amazon SES and finally forget about the nightmare of logging into the AWS console”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-26
“I'm using Amazon SES for the actual mail delivery to ensure high deliverability from day one”
POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-13
“deliverability is supposed to be better and easier with Amazon SES”
MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2024-10-01