Amazon SES Erfahrungen

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Amazon SES is a relatively simple integration despite the need of better documentation, has an very developer-minded logic and allows you to share data to other Amazon AWS services for analytics, monitoring and others. It is the way to go when you want to have bulk email at a fraction of the costs incurred with other competitors. It is extremely reliable and has the Amazon infrastructure to support it.

The web console is simple yet provides you with the essentials to monitor the account's health and performance.

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Having migrated from Mailgun, I really felt the lack of proper development documentation when you are integrating for the first time. The current documentation is not well organized and lacks the developer friendlyness that you can find with competing products. However, this may have to do with a more general, bulk approach that Amazon focuses on. There are different versions of their APIs in the process of being migrated with the newer version being somewhat limited in features compared to the older one.

My recommendation is that you get prepared to read a lot and test as you start to implement.

I don't think you will be provided with bleeding edge email developments early but the basics will always be covered with Amazon SES.

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The pricing is amazing for such a great service. The API is well documented and SDKs are available for the most popular languages. If you are integrating with legacy systems where you have no API access and require an MTA to be configured that i also supported. There's a generous free tier available for smaller projects as well (so long as you are using either EC2 or Lambda to integrate).

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There's really not much to dislike about SES. A dashboard like Sendgrid provides would be a nice additional option but it's aimed at doing one thing and doing it well.

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Integrates well with the rest of AWS services and has high deliverability rates. It was easy to set up, though I have not tried the advanced features yet.

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Initially you are sandboxed and have to apply to have this removed manually. It's quick, however!

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this is a very simple but capable email system that we tried to use and i have worked with others who have used it. the feature set is good, the speed is excellent and the ability to lease an IP and to have tiered levels is very good. It also has a good reputation dashboard so we know what is going on and how to make sure we get lots of emails through spam filters

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Spam filters eventually catch up to you. Also they provide no support via phone that is worthwhile. The support techs are condescending and not very helpful. They close cases very fast, they send pre-canned responses that do not answer the questions you ask, and it is useless to talk to them. We moved away from them after we could not get what we needed done.

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Price per 1k emails is incredible. As of this writing, we are talking about $0.10 per 1k emails sent, which is really now.

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Their support is getting worse. Very recently I had to wait a month until an account from one of our customers was finally approved and then a couple of months later, we had another customer that was rejected for no reason whatsoever and we had to escalate to have it into production.

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What I love the most is "The pricing", it is extremely cheap compared with other massive mailing systems like mail chimp or others.

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The ease of configuration... You need a little bit of knowledge to configure, and even more knowledge if you want more specific features.

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Amazon ses has a really good prive tonuse It for mail marketing and intégrate It with other softwares

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It's not really easy to set Up, but the support works fine.

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One of the biggest things about this program that I absolutely love is the fact that you are only charged for what you used. That alone makes Amazon SES great in my book because I know that I am only paying for the features that I have used over the period of time. It's also very flexible in connecting to various other software/programs etc.

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It can be a bit tricky to figure out how to use the backend for those who are not tech-savvy. As a result, I think that might be something that they can try to improve a little bit. But other than that I'd say it's pretty impressive.

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Able to use it for mass marketing emails and email authentication.

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Can’t say because I’m so glad it is based on the cloud and it allows me to manage inbound and outbound mail effectively

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FAST, USER FRIENDLY AND EFFECTIVE BUSINESS TOOL

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I DONT HAVE A CON FOR THE SOFTWARE NOW AS ENJOY USING IT

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Three features are most impactful to my business.
1 - The service is very affordable, this helps preserve budget.
2 - Arguably this is one of the most reliable email solutions I've used.
3 - The automated suppression list helps my business maintain a positive email reputation (so my email messages don't go to junk).
Also, I should mention their support was great, and the odd time I felt I needed to reach out, they've exceeded my expectations.
Additionally, scaling up (if needed) it easy to do as well, so I know this can grow with my business.

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One thing I thought could be improved was the allowed size of each email message was too small. However, Amazon SES provides a form where you can request to be able to relay email that's up to 10MB each (and it's super easy to request and receive).

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Amazon SES is super straightforward and cheap. You can set it up in no time and it just works. At first your sending limits might be limited but once you have built your reputation and they go up you can send big batches of emails easily. We use it for our marketing automation suites and for our operational messages.

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Reporting is a little more difficult to setup. It works with other products from Amazon and just isnt as straightforward.

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SES is basically the best email service out there. We find it the most used service out of all of the Amazon Web Services suite.
- Extremely cheap, $0.10 for 1000 emails is the cheapest in the industry.
- Reliability is top notch.
- Unlike other services, our emails don't end up in spam. SES has a great reputation.
- Limit increase has to be applied for by support tickets, though the service is very fast.
- Emails can base send from servers across the world .
- The free quota for EC2 sent emails is great for startups and testing.

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It can be a little complicated for non-IT professionals to set up. There is a manual support ticket opening process involved to gain production access, this can lengthen the process to start the email services.

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We have been using Amazon SES service right from the initial stages of our product journey. It is extremely reliable and has never failed us. I like the fact that we can track the emails sent, I use it for a lot of purposes. It has always been fast and robust, a must use. The best part of it being very cheap.

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The implementation is not very fast, it did take a bit of time. But once you are up and running, it does not require a lot of maintenance.

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this is probably the most inexpensive yet reliable bulk email tool out there in the market and competes head to head with mailchimp and others.
aws ses is the classic case of set and forget, where once you are configured then you are good to go, no need for maintenance.

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very limited service regions would be the biggest con.
there is an initial limitation on how many emails you can send before you get approved

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Great API, well priced, and well integrated into the Amazon Web Services ecosystem. Deliverability is good, and dedicated IP pricing is very low.

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Support is pretty weak, as with all of AWS. You need to have in-house expertiese to successfully use most AWS services, and SES is no exception. When deliverability is problematic the support team can help but it requires escalation and patience.

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The ability to send emails via SMTP protocol and an API. With the API they can achieve millisecond speeds to send emails. It's very affordable.

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Some of the configuration options are a bit complicated and require purchasing other products from AWS.

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SES help cut expenses of Postmark by offering a fraction of the cost per emails going out. Customer support is very responsive and it's easy to request quota increases.

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Postmark offered nice insights to individual emails, which SES does not.

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Reliable Email sending service
A very low-cost SMTP server

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Need to write our own custom code to track bounces, unsubscribes and spam complaints.

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If you're running a web service that uses a popular web framework you'll probably need an SMTP server for sending certain emails. This is that and it's cheap and easy.

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It's simple like it says. Won't help you run amazing campaigns or track lists of customers.

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A managed environment for data is, in my opinion, a must. Turn-key log-based backups and recovery with all necessary features. A good number of database options.

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Lacks direct access to the machine so this is limiting as to what can be set on each database. While most things are possible, there's a learning curve to accomplish some more advanced configuration.

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I have used it for 2 different projects and they work a lot better now. It's worth it if the company decides to pay for it.

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A little bit too complex and lack of documentation

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Setting up an email server is relatively complicated. It's made even worse when dealing with a high volume of outgoing emails. AWS SES makes it much easier than any DIY option out there, giving you the exact DNS records to enter.

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As with most AWS services, it will take a little learning. Compared to some of their other services though, SES is quite straight forward.

I really don't like that there is no simple incoming email forwarding option. It can use SNS to forward a JSON encoded mess, but unless you are using their WorkMail service, receiving mail is still something you'll have to figure out.

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Well, I think this is the best SMTP server with the best features. I never get my emails in spam with amazon SES.

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It's a bit difficult to start with Amazon services because they need more technical knowledge and it's hard for a noob like me but in the end, with help of youtube videos, I was able to set it up.

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The Best thing that it can notify senders of email deliverability issues and suggest for the improvement of the inbox

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High price for the new users or new businesses are the most hurdle