I'm not sure if you know about this, but in case not -- sendgrid is dirt cheap for transactional emails. And there's tons of offerings for marketing emails; I

I'm not sure if you know about this, but in case not -- sendgrid is dirt cheap for transactional emails. And there's tons of offerings for marketing emails; I'm partial either to sendinblue or ses depending on your use case. There really isn't much reason to roll your own, particularly with ses.