Amazon SES: verified facts and rating
Checked 2026-11-04
Score breakdown
82% backed by facts · How we rank
Amazon SES against the market
The dot is the company, the line is the median of all companies in this ranking.
Price per 1,000 extra emails$0.16$1.80$0.16 · median $0.95
Cheapest paid plan, per month$0.00$20.00$0.00 · median $15.00
Amazon SES strengths and weaknesses
Pros
- Low price per 1,000 emails
- Cheap entry plan
- Data can stay in the EU
- SMTP relay
Cons
- No permanent free plan found
- Small or no free allowance
All facts
| Fact | Value | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per 1,000 extra emails | $0.16 Essentials Pro Enterprise 0 – 10M emails 1 / month $0.16 per 1,000 emails 2 $0.22 per 1,000 emails $0.23 per 1,000 emails | aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Cheapest paid plan, per month | $0.00 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a pay-as-you-go service based on the volume of emails sent and received. There are no contract negotiations and no upfront commitments. ... Per account per region per month - $105 $500 | aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Emails included in the cheapest paid plan | Not verified | — | |
| Permanent free plan | No At account sign-up, you can choose between a free plan and a paid plan. The free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation. | aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Free emails per month | 0 At account sign-up, you can choose between a free plan and a paid plan. The free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation. | aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| SMTP relay | Yes Amazon SES provides an SMTP interface for seamless integration with applications that can send email via SMTP. You can connect directly to this SMTP interface from your applications, or configure your existing email server to use this interface as an SMTP relay. | aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Sending API | Yes Amazon SES v2 API and SMTP accepts email messages up to 40MB in size including any images and attachments that are part of the message. | aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Event webhooks | Yes Amazon SES can notify you of bounce or complaint events in three ways: by sending a notification email, by notifying an Amazon SNS topic, or by publishing sending events. | docs.aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Dedicated IP | Yes Dedicated IPs - Standard/BYOIP Dedicated IP addresses you manually set up and manage in SES (or bring your own), giving you full control over warm-up, scaling, and pool management. Add-on Add-on Add-on | aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Inbound email | Yes Inbound processing and routing (Mail Manager) Email Processing 8 Route and manage inbound email through Mail Manager using traffic policies and rule sets that determine which messages to allow, block, or act on. | aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Log retention on the cheapest paid plan | Not verified | — | |
| Data kept in the EU | Yes Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 email.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com email.eu-central-1.api.aws HTTPS HTTPS Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1 | docs.aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| GDPR data processing agreement | Yes How does AWS incorporate the SCCs into the AWS GDPR DPA with customers? The AWS Service Terms include the SCCs adopted by the European Commission (EC) in June 2021 | aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| SOC 2 report | Not verified | — | |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | Not verified | — | |
| Uptime in a published SLA | 99.9% Included Services Amazon Simple Email Service ("SES") ... AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Included Services each available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage for each AWS region, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.9% (the “Service Commitment”). | aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Founded | 2011 Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) turns 10 years old today. Back on January 25th 2011, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had only 15 services. | aws.amazon.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Public status page | Not verified | — | |
| Company headquarters | Not verified | — | |
| Company | Not verified | — |
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