AWS SES

ELI5 — The Vibe Check

SES is AWS's email sending service. Need to send a million password reset emails? SES has you covered. It's like having a post office inside AWS that's really good at not getting your emails flagged as spam. Just don't use it to actually spam people — Amazon will shut you down faster than you can say 'unsubscribe.'

Real Talk

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cloud-based email sending service for transactional, marketing, and notification emails. It provides high deliverability through dedicated IPs, authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), bounce/complaint handling, and sending analytics. Can also receive emails and trigger Lambda functions.

When You'll Hear This

"All our transactional emails go through SES." / "SES costs like $0.10 per thousand emails — way cheaper than SendGrid for our volume."