Amazon SES
83Cloud email at AWS scale
transactional
Operational
Founded 2011Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is AWS's cloud-based email sending service. It excels at high-volume sending with extremely competitive pricing, though it requires more configuration and AWS expertise compared to developer-focused alternatives.
Speed
80Reliability
88Deliverability
82Developer Experience
75Value
95Current Metrics
| Delivery Speed (p50) | 220ms |
| Delivery Speed (p95) | 520ms |
| Delivery Speed (p99) | 780ms |
| Delivery Speed (avg) | 280ms |
| API Latency (p50) | 55ms |
| API Latency (p95) | 160ms |
| API Latency (p99) | 280ms |
| API Latency (avg) | 72ms |
| Uptime (30d) | 99.95% |
| Deliverability | 96.2% |
| Bounce Rate | 2.4% |
| Throughput | 20,000/s |
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Features
✓AWS integration
✓Virtual deliverability manager
✓Configuration sets
✓Suppression lists
✓SMTP interface
✓SNS notifications
Pricing starts at $0.10/1,000 emails
Incidents (1)
US-East-1 Sending ThrottledMajor
Amazon SES·Oct 5, 2025·1h 7m·Resolved
Sending throughput in US-East-1 was significantly throttled due to infrastructure constraints. Customers experienced rejection of approximately 30% of API calls during peak period.
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