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Why do you use MailGun, SendGrid etc. over AWS SES?
It seems as though AWS has the best pricing, what are the benefits to the other email delivery services over AWS?
- xauronx 14y agoSendGrid automatically adds click tracking and opened email statistics. Also, god forbid you actually try to use the Amazon SDK for PHP. Two days I'll never get back. Additionally, I was unable to get Amazon to verify my domain so that I could even send emails through their SMTP server.
- nirvdrum 14y agoI don't think SES originally supported SMTP, which meant it was harder to use and I couldn't relay through a local Postfix server. I think they fixed that, but I had already chosen SendGrid by then and I've been pretty happy with the choice.
- MattBearman 14y agoI use mailgun partly because of recommendations from other HNers, and partly because currently my usage puts me in their free tier, which SES doesn't have.