Amazon SES
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Amazon SES, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Amazon SES's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| À la carte pricing | — | No minimum fees or mandatory service usage · Outbound email: $0.10 / 1,000 emails · Inbound email: $0.10 / 1,000 emails · Pay for usage; billed separately for sending, receiving, data, and additional features |
| Enterprise | — | 0–10M emails/month: $0.23 per 1,000 emails · 10–100M: $0.18 per 1,000 · >100M: $0.13 per 1,000 · $500 per account per region per month · Per 1,000 emails sent or processed, plus per-account, per-region fee |
| Essentials | — | 0–10M emails/month: $0.16 per 1,000 emails · 10–100M: $0.14 per 1,000 · >100M: $0.11 per 1,000 · No per-account monthly fee · Per 1,000 emails sent or processed; tiered monthly rates |
| Pro | — | 0–10M emails/month: $0.22 per 1,000 emails · 10–100M: $0.17 per 1,000 · >100M: $0.12 per 1,000 · $105 per account per region per month · Per 1,000 emails sent or processed, plus per-account, per-region fee |
The facts
Each one read from Amazon SES's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- AWS presents SES for developers and businesses that send transactional messages, marketing campaigns, newsletters, or email from applications.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Authentication and private access
- SES supports DKIM, SPF, and DMARC and can expose its SMTP endpoint to a VPC through AWS PrivateLink.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Deliverability
- Virtual Deliverability Manager provides email performance insights, recommendations, and optional automatic implementation of improvements.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Global resilience
- Global Endpoints can distribute sending across two AWS Regions and shift traffic away from an impaired Region automatically.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Inbound email
- SES can accept or reject incoming mail based on sender email address, IP address, or domain, then store accepted mail in S3, run Lambda code, or publish SNS notifications.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- AWS documentation describes integrations with EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, SNS, Route 53, IAM, S3, Lambda, KMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Data Firehose, Redshift, and OpenSearch Service.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Mail Manager
- Mail Manager provides tools to manage incoming and outgoing organizational email, with security and data-protection compliance controls.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Product
- Amazon SES is a cloud-based email service for sending and receiving high-volume transactional, marketing, and newsletter email.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Reputation monitoring
- The SES reputation dashboard tracks bounces, feedback loops, and other deliverability events, and publishes bounce and complaint metrics to CloudWatch.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security responsibility
- AWS describes SES security as a shared responsibility, with AWS securing the cloud infrastructure and customers responsible for security in the cloud based on their service use and data needs.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Sending methods
- Email can be sent through the SES console, SMTP interface, or SES API, accessed with the AWS CLI or an AWS SDK.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Testing
- The mailbox simulator can test successful delivery, hard bounces, out-of-office responses, and feedback without affecting sender reputation.checked 7 Oct 2026
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