# Amazon Simple Email Service

> Cloud-based email sending and receiving service integrating via API or SMTP for transactional and marketing messages at scale.

- Website: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/?ref=devshelf.io
- DevShelf page: https://devshelf.io/resource/amazon-simple-email-service
- Pricing: not verified
- Categories: [Email & Notification APIs](https://devshelf.io/category/email-notification-apis.md)
- Last checked: 2026-11-03

## About

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a fully managed cloud email infrastructure service that enables applications to send and receive transactional, marketing, and bulk emails via API or SMTP interfaces. It provides flexible IP configurations, dedicated or shared sending IPs, and built-in deliverability monitoring tools to manage sender reputation and inbox placement. Pricing is based on pay-as-you-go usage.

## Alternatives

- [Postmark](https://devshelf.io/resource/postmark.md): Fast and reliable transactional email delivery service and API for developers, focusing on high inbox deliverability and message streams. (pricing: Freemium)
- [Mailgun](https://devshelf.io/resource/mailgun.md): Transactional email delivery service providing APIs for sending, validating, and optimizing email campaigns. (pricing: Freemium)
- [Twilio](https://devshelf.io/resource/twilio.md): Cloud communications platform providing APIs for SMS, voice, email, and conversational AI services. (pricing: not verified)

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