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To be fair, the price isn't just slightly lower - it is nearly an order of magnitude lower. Sending 500k messages a month with Amazon is $50, and with SendGrid
by tlianza 16y ago
To be fair, the price isn't just slightly lower - it is nearly an order of magnitude lower. Sending 500k messages a month with Amazon is $50, and with SendGrid it's $400.
If you send that level of email a month (which is easy to do if you send a weekly newsletter to a few hundred thousand users) you're now talking about saving yourself a few grand a year with Amazon.
Given the "switch" can be as simple as changing some SMTP settings, this is a big deal. I don't think the people who jump ship are necessarily hyper-price-sensitive customers. Amazon is just turning this service into a commodity.
- joshbert 16y agoYou raise a great point. I'd really appreciate a little more input on the inboxing side of the deal though. We could say that SendGrid has that going for it, so I'm wondering if there's something we can do about that.
- 0xEA 16y agoWhile the pricing isn't comparable, neither is the service, assuming that they're being completely honest in their post.
- tomstuart 16y agoAmazon SES doesn't have an SMTP interface. You can, however, configure an MTA to deliver through SES by delegating delivery to a Perl script (e.g. http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/IntegratingWithServer.Postfix.html http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/...).