Amazon SES
Cloud-based email service for sending transactional and marketing emails at scale with flexible pay-as-you-go pricing
- Also known as
- amazon-ses
Available worldwide
What is Amazon SES?
A cloud email service that handles high-volume email sending and receiving through APIs, SMTP, or AWS SDKs. It offers deliverability tools, dedicated IP management, security features, and compliance controls to help organizations reliably reach customer inboxes.
Amazon SES pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $0.02–$0.16 per 1,000 emails depending on plan and volume. Free tier: up to $200 AWS credits for 6 months on new accounts.
Essentials
Per-email metered pricing with automatic email validation
- Auto email validation
Pro
Fixed monthly fee with discounted per-email rates and deliverability features
- domains
- 1
- dedicated_ips
- 1
- api_validations
- 2,500 per month
- seed_list_tests
- 5 per month
- Dedicated IP addresses
- Virtual Deliverability Manager
- Inbox placement testing
- Email validation API
Enterprise
Premium plan with fixed monthly cost, lowest per-email rates, and comprehensive features
- domains
- 5
- dedicated_ips
- 12
- api_validations
- 5,000 per month
- seed_list_tests
- 25 per month
- Dedicated IP addresses
- Virtual Deliverability Manager
- Global endpoints
- Annual expert deliverability assessment
- Inbox placement testing
À la carte
Pure usage-based pricing with no fixed monthly costs, tiered by volume
- Volume-based tiered rates
Add-ons
- Global Endpoints (multi-region failover)$50/mo
- Open Ingress Endpoint$50/mo
- Attachment data transfer$0.12 per GB
What Amazon SES does
The capabilities that matter for communication apis, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SMS
- -
- Voice
- -
- -
- RCS
- -
- Transactional email
- ✓
- Video / real-time
- -
- In-app chat
- -
- Verify / OTP / 2FA
- -
- Two-way messaging
- ✓
- Geographic coverage
- Global
- Email deliverability tools
- ✓
- Published per-unit pricing
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- Amazon WorkMail
- Amazon Mail Manager
Amazon SES FAQ
Common questions about Amazon SES, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Amazon SES?
A managed email delivery platform that scales to handle high volumes with flexible IP address management. Provides deliverability tracking and sender reputation tools for optimized inbox placement. It is indexed under Communication APIs.
Source: https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_sgm
What platforms does Amazon SES support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Amazon SES. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_sgm
Can Amazon SES be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amazon SES, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_sgm
What security certifications does Amazon SES have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Amazon SES. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Amazon SES not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Where is Amazon SES available?
Amazon SES is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.
Source: https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_sgm
Amazon SES alternatives
Other communication apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- NovuOpen-source platform for sending notifications and enabling agent conversations across email, SMS, chat, push, and in-app messagingmedium · 73%
- DailyLow-latency infrastructure for building real-time voice, video, and AI conversationsmedium · 71%
- StreamAPIs and SDKs for building real-time messaging, video, activity streams, and content moderationmedium · 73%
- InfobipA unified cloud platform for messaging and voice communications across multiple channelslow · 48%
- Plivomedium · 72%
- SinchAPIs for SMS messaging, voice, email, video, and user verification servicesmedium · 68%
Compare Amazon SES
Side by side against other communication apis, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Amazon SES, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 100 | 0.12 | 11.5 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.05 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 25 | 0.04 | 1.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 0.05 | 0.7 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 65% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Email: Yes · Two way: Yes · Global coverage: global · Deliverability tools: Yes · Usage pricing transparent: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-08-13 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
| Fedramp | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Hipaa | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Iso27001 | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Trust center | https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
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