Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cost-effective email service built on the reliable and scalable infrastructure that Amazon.com developed to serve its own customer base. With Amazon SES, you can send and receive email with no required minimum commitments – you pay as you go, and you only pay for what you use.
Marketing Email
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 value.
Transactional Email
Amazon SES is a low-cost solution for sending automated emails such as order confirmations, shipping notices, order status updates, policy changes, password resets, and other messages that keep your customers informed.
Notifications
Use Amazon SES to send out system health reports, application error alerts, workflow status updates, and any other event that requires reporting.
Receiving Email
You can use Amazon SES to receive messages and deliver them to an Amazon S3 bucket, call your custom code via an AWS Lambda function, or publish notifications to Amazon SNS.
Reliable
Amazon SES runs within Amazon's cloud network infrastructure and datacenters. Multiple servers and datacenters provide high availability and data durability.
Scalable
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.
Inexpensive
There are no up-front fees or fixed expenses with Amazon SES. You pay low charges for the number of emails sent, number of emails received, data transfer fees, and attachments.
Optimal Inbox Placement
Amazon SES takes proactive steps to maximize the percentage of your emails that arrive in your recipients' inboxes.
