SES is a managed service and ideal for sending bulk emails at scale
The existing email server can also be configured to send outgoing
SES acts as an outbound email server and eliminates the need to support their own software or applications to do the heavy lifting of email transport
emails through SES with no change in any settings in the email clients
Maximum message size including attachments is 10 MB per message.
SES Characteristics
Compatible with SMTP
Applications can send email using a single API call in many supported languages Java, .Net, PHP, Perl, Ruby, HTTP/HTTPS etc
Optimized for highest levels of uptime, availability and scales as per the demand
Provides sandbox environment for testing
Sending Limits
Production SES has a set of sending limits which include
Sending Quota – max number of emails in a 24-hour period
Maximum Send Rate – max number of emails per second
SES automatically adjusts the limits upward as long as emails are of high quality and they are sent in a controlled manner, as any spike in the email sent might be considered to spam.
Limits can also be raised by submitting a Quota increase request
Pricing details
You pay $0.10 for every 1,000 emails you send or receive.
You pay $0.12 per GB of data in the messages you send. This includes headers, message content (including text and images), and attachments.
You pay $0.09 for every 1,000 incoming mail chunks 256 kilobytes. This includes headers, message content (text and images), and attachments.
SES Good Practices
Send high-quality and real production content that your recipients want
Only send to those who have signed up for the mail
Unsubscribe recipients who have not interacted with the business recently
Have low bounce and compliant rates and remove bounced or complained addresses, using SNS to monitor bounces and complaints, treating them as an opt-out
