About
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cloud-based email service provider for sending and receiving email at scale. It is designed for transactional messages, marketing campaigns, newsletters, and application-driven email workflows, with support for deliverability tools, IP management, and email processing controls.
The service integrates with applications and AWS environments to help businesses automate email communication while maintaining security, compliance, and operational visibility. It is positioned as a pay-as-you-go email platform for organizations that need reliable high-volume email delivery and inbound email handling.
- High-volume outbound email sending for transactional and marketing use cases
- Inbound email receiving and processing
- Email deliverability tools and sender reputation support
- Dedicated, shared, and owned IP address options
- Mail Manager features for email routing, automation, and archiving
Free Tier Value
Amazon SES pricing is explicitly pay-as-you-go with no subscriptions or minimum charges, so the paid plan is usage-based. The page states new AWS customers can receive up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits, which per the rules converts to a conservative $66.67/month equivalent, but because this is a credit-based intro tier and the prompt also provides a concrete SES free-tier cap, the recurring free-tier value is computed from the cap: 3,000 message charges/month at the outbound rate of $0.10 per 1,000 emails = about $0.30/month. The page does not explicitly say no credit card is required, so no_cc_required is false.
What's included in the free tier
- Up to 3,000 message charges per month for the first 12 months after starting SES.
- Applies to outbound emails, inbound emails, and Virtual Deliverability Manager outbound email processing.
- One sent email counts as one message charge.
- One received email counts as one message charge.
- With Virtual Deliverability Manager enabled, each sent email counts as two message charges.
- Free tier message charges are applied to the most expensive eligible charges first.
- Free tier credits for new AWS customers can be used toward eligible SES usage.
- Free plan is available for 6 months after account creation for new AWS customers starting July 15, 2025.
See Amazon SES pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Amazon SES
- Outbound emails
- $0.10 per 1,000 emails
- Inbound emails
- $0.10 per 1,000 emails
- Virtual Deliverability Manager processing
- $0.07 per 1,000 emails
- Mail Manager open ingress endpoint
- $50 per month per endpoint
- Dedicated IPs (standard)
- $24.95 per month per IP
- Free tier message charges
- Up to 3,000 per month for first 12 months
- Outbound emails billed per 1,000 emails
- Inbound emails billed per 1,000 emails
- Virtual Deliverability Manager outbound email processing
- Email validation
- Mail Manager options and add-ons
- Dedicated IPs available as add-ons
Pricing extracted from Amazon SES's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
