Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. SMTP2GO

Amazon Simple Email Service comes with the bundle of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and it also offers a limited number of emails per month for free. One who has a technical background and wants to send custom emails with custom domains in a professional way can go with Amazon Simple Email Service. If you have no technical background or tech team, it might not be useful for you.

Incentivized

It's great for any application that you need to track email receipt and recipient interaction, or with devices/programs that don't fare well with Exchange based email services. Don't try to set SMTP2GO as your outbound email server if you're using O365, that just isn't a possibility (not that I've looked into that setup).

Incentivized

• As compare to other vendors that I have integrated response is very quick.
• You can verify both domain or email to send out the emails from.
• While setup you can easily configure it with your domain with few clicks like adding CNAME, DKIM records
• Easy to use with or without access key and secret key within aws servers. You can directly map permissions to servers to go without credentials using boto3.

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• Bulk email sending in the thousands of emails per day
• Email with large attachments going to a large number of users
• Email logging for audit/tracking purposes
• Handling large numbers of sending domains
• Team admin access for IT to manage settings and view logs

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• Even if you do not want to spam, you cant send an email to the unverified users.
• Integration with other services is a bit tricky. To watch the trail, handle bounced emails, save emails on S3 are not straightforward to implement.
• When you want to send a lot of emails (in bulk), it takes a significant amount of time.

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• Might be nice to add a monthly good looking PDF report for subaccount users that can be branded and sent directly to the subaccount contact. A 'client facing' report that we can use to show our customers the email usage history.

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Reliability in email delivery is what counts the most. SMTP2GO is undeniably a winner in this category. The price is reasonable, therefore the RoI is excellent.

1. Very less cost. 2. Fastest in market. 3. Negligible downtime. 4. Easy to integrate with other systems. 5. Easy to setup with your domain and email.

Incentivized

While reporting could use some tweaks overall it is a very good product that works reliably and is simple to set up and maintain.

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We did not have the need of contacting Amazon for support. The documentation they provide is of great quality. Examples are easy to follow. One thing to have into consideration is we didn't have the premium support for AWS, so I can't provide details on how good or bad this service is, but in general, the basic support I had was great.

Incentivized

I've only needed support for the software once or twice the 5+ years i've used it. I found their support responsive and helpful at each encounter. They seem to have the same level of commitment to their enterprise as I do to mine which is refreshing.

Mailchimp has a fixed monthly price, and with the number of emails that we sent, it's pretty expensive. Since our mailings are quite infrequent, using Mailchimp didn't make financial sense for us, even though Mailchimp is a more polished, packaged solution for email marketing. We evaluated other email delivery solutions as well and didn't find anything that matches Amazon SES on reliability and pricing.

Incentivized

Our goal was to find a product what fit those needs:

• Can be use with SMTP protocol to relay emails from our webhosting environment
• Have an API to manage the account and offer the ability to also send emails

The competition was offering too much options and services that we wouldn't use but still had to pay for while SMTP2GO fulfilled our needs with a verry competitiveThe competition was offering too much options and services that we wouldn't use (but still had to pay for anyways) while SMTP2GO fulfilled our needs with a verry competitive pricing.

• Amazon Simple Email Service has improved delivery rates and eliminated delivery issues everywhere we have impelmented it.
• We have been able to enforce stricter security within our application environments because we are using Amazon Simple Email Service instead of handling email transmissions natively.

Incentivized

• Allowed us to use the same SMTP information across the board for all customers instead of having them split between several accounts.
• More cost efficient than paying for several different email accounts.
• Created an additional layer of great customer service for us since SMTP information is able to be preprogrammed into the equipment before ever leaving our facility.