SES vs Mailgun vs Postmark for marketing email
Amazon SES prices marketing email by the message. Mailgun and Postmark price it by the plan. What each costs at five volumes, and what Postmark permits.
Amazon SES prices marketing email by the message. Mailgun and Postmark price it by the plan. What each costs at five volumes, and what Postmark permits.
A dedicated IP on SES costs $24.95 a month and starts with zero reputation. Below a volume threshold it costs more than it helps. Here's the test.
Bringing your own Amazon SES account is genuinely cheaper, but only past a certain list size. Below it, an AWS account costs more than it saves.
Amazon SES suppresses hard bounces and complaints automatically. It doesn't manage your list, stop reimports, or know about unsubscribes.
Any hosted tool that sends through your Amazon SES needs access to your AWS account. Here's what a cross-account IAM role should ask for, and what it shouldn't.
Sendy's $69 license buys self-hosted software, not the server underneath it. The honest total cost against a subscription, and who should skip it.
Five tools that put a frontend on Amazon SES, ranked on price, free tier and features, with EmailFig first and where each rival wins stated plainly.
A denied SES production access request usually means a vague answer, not a broken setup. What AWS's form asks and what a strong answer looks like.
What Amazon SES actually is, what it costs, its sandbox and quotas, and the four real ways to build marketing email on top of it.
Amazon SES lists $0.10 per 1,000 emails, but new accounts default to a plan charging $0.16. The full bill, priced line by line.