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Learn Amazon SES and email operations.
Practical, plain-English guides for teams that send through Amazon SES—from first DNS records to deliverability monitoring, campaigns, workflows, and migrations.
Start here
Start with Amazon SES
What Amazon SES is, what it costs, how to get a domain sending, and where its limits sit.
- What is Amazon SES? AWS's pay-as-you-go sending service explained in plain English — how it works and what it leaves out.
- Amazon SES setup guide Verify your domain, configure DKIM, SPF and DMARC, wire event destinations, and get production access approved.
- Amazon SES pricing explained $0.10 per 1,000 outbound emails, in full: list prices, free tier, dedicated IP costs, and worked examples.
- Amazon SES sending limits The 24-hour quota and the per-second send rate — sandbox and production defaults, throttling errors, and how to raise both.
- Amazon SES review An honest review from a team that builds on it: 5/5 infrastructure, 2/5 product experience, and who it suits.
Deliverability
Deliverability & domain authentication
Getting mail into the inbox, proving your domain is yours, and keeping both true as volume grows.
- Amazon SES deliverability Why SES mail lands in spam and how to fix it: reputation thresholds, DKIM, SPF and DMARC failures, and Gmail's bulk-sender rules.
- DMARC monitoring Turn DMARC reports into clear actions — identify every sender using your domain and move safely from p=none to p=reject.
- DMARC monitoring for Amazon SES Publish a DMARC record for a domain that sends through SES, then read the aggregate reports that come back.
- Bulk email with Amazon SES SendBulkEmail vs SendEmail, templates, one-click unsubscribe compliance, queueing, and per-campaign results.
Build
Build the email program
Campaigns, templates, lifecycle automation, and transactional sending on top of the infrastructure you already own.
- Amazon SES email marketing SES sends a million emails for around $100 but ships no campaign tools. DIY, self-hosted, key-paste SaaS and SendOps compared.
- React Email + Amazon SES Render TSX to HTML at send time, handle the bulk-sending Handlebars gap, and compile React templates to SES-native ones.
- Drip campaign software Six tools compared by how you would rather build: visual canvas, marketer suite, or campaigns as code.
- Transactional email services Amazon SES, Postmark, SendGrid, Mailgun, Resend and Mandrill priced at 10k, 100k and 1M emails, with a winner per buyer.
Compare
Compare & migrate
Head-to-head comparisons and step-by-step moves onto your own SES.
- Amazon SES alternatives Resend, Postmark, Mailgun, SendGrid and more compared — plus when keeping SES and fixing the tooling wins.
- Amazon SES vs Mailgun Pricing at 10k/100k/1M emails, deliverability, inbound email, developer experience, and who should pick which.
- Amazon SES vs SendGrid Pricing at 10k/100k/1M emails, deliverability, developer experience, tooling and support, and who should pick which.
- Migrate from Amazon Pinpoint Pinpoint ends support on 30 October 2026. Move campaigns, segments and journeys inside your AWS account, on the same SES.
- Migrate from Mailchimp Move audiences, segments and Customer Journeys to your own SES — flat pricing, no per-contact fees.
- Migrate from Resend Contacts, broadcasts and React Email templates port to your own SES nearly as-is.
- Migrate from Sendy Sendy already sends through your SES, so delivery does not change. Import lists, rebuild autoresponders, retire the PHP server.
Get Started
Put the guides to work on your own SES
One CloudFormation stack turns your AWS SES account into an email operations platform — audiences, broadcasts, workflows, templates, analytics, and DMARC monitoring. Delivery stays on SES at $0.10 per 1,000.