Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cost-effective outbound-only email-sending service built on the reliable and scalable infrastructure that Amazon.com has developed to serve its own customer base. With Amazon SES, you can send transactional email, marketing messages, or any other type of high-quality content and you only pay for what you use.
Along with high deliverability, Amazon SES provides easy, real-time access to your sending statistics and built-in notifications for bounces, complaints, and deliveries to help you fine-tune your cloud-based email-sending strategy.
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Sending email through Amazon SES is as simple as using the SMTP interface or calling an API, and you can easily monitor your sending activity and deliverability statistics at any time.
There are no up-front fees or fixed expenses with Amazon SES, and you benefit from the efficiencies of Amazon's scale. You pay low charges for the number of emails sent, data transfer fees, and attachments.
Amazon SES runs within Amazon's proven cloud network infrastructure and datacenters. Outgoing messages are stored redundantly across multiple servers and datacenters to provide high availability and data durability.
Amazon SES is based on the scalable cloud-based email technology used by Amazon websites around the world to send billions of messages a year.
Amazon SES takes proactive steps to maximize the percentage of your emails that arrive in your recipients' inboxes.
You can track your bounces, complaints, and deliveries with Amazon SNS and easily set up DKIM for any domain you manage via Amazon Route 53. Emails from Amazon EC2 and AWS Elastic Beanstalk qualify for the free usage tier.
Use Amazon SES to promote your products and services to your large customer base. You can send advertisements, special offers, or any other type of high-quality content that your existing customers will value.
Amazon SES is a low-cost solution for automated emails such as order confirmations, shipping notices, order status updates, policy changes, password resets, and other messages that keep your customers informed.
With Amazon SES, you can send newsletters, agendas, announcements, and other high-quality content to all of your subscribers.
You can use Amazon SES to send out system health reports, application error alerts, workflow status updates, and any other event that requires reporting.
You can use Amazon SES to notify users of invitations, posts, status changes, and other updates that they elect to receive.
You can integrate Amazon SES with your existing mail server to handle all outbound emails that your business sends.
