An Amazon SES Alternative For Teams Without An AWS Engineer

Any other way of getting your application mail delivered. That covers rival platforms such as Postmark, Mailgun or SendGrid, and it also covers managed services like this one, where the sending is run for you instead of handed over as an endpoint and a documentation link.

SES gives you a sending endpoint and expects you to build everything around it. New accounts start in a sandbox that will only send to addresses you have verified, until you request production access and are granted it. We handle that, along with the sending domain, the authentication records, the warmup schedule and the monthly delivery numbers, which are ours to get right and ours to explain when they slip.

With SES that depends entirely on what somebody built, because the product has no searchable message log. Sending events publish to SNS and go wherever you route them, so if that was never set up, the history does not exist anywhere. We keep your delivery history and answer questions against it as part of the service, which matters more than it sounds until the first time somebody asks about last month.

Yes. The new sending path gets built and tested alongside the old one, and your application only switches over once messages are landing. Nothing is turned off before the replacement is demonstrably working.

Yes. Warming controls how fast volume climbs on the new domain, not whether your mail sends. Plan on two to three weeks before everything is running at full volume, and expect us to tell you where you are in that ramp rather than leaving you to guess.

That is a repair job rather than a setup job, and it takes longer. We audit what is actually published, correct the records, request delisting anywhere the domain has been flagged, and clear out the addresses causing bounces. If the domain has been mailing bad addresses for years, expect a few weeks before the numbers settle.

It replaces the part you were operating. We own the sending path end to end, so there is no platform account left for anyone on your team to administer, and no second invoice to reconcile against the first.

Yes. We test each one during setup rather than assume it renders, and anything built inside a previous provider’s editor gets rebuilt on the new path. The ones that break are almost always the oldest ones nobody has opened in two years.

It comes with you. An accumulated list of addresses that bounced or complained is worth real money in reputation terms, and starting clean without it means mailing known bad addresses on your first day at full volume.

No, though those are the common case. Anything that can send through an authenticated path can be routed, and the setup work on our side is much the same whether the mail comes from WordPress, a custom application, or both at once.

Records go up within a day or two of getting DNS access, and templates are usually done the same week. The warmup sets the real timeline, so the honest answer to when everything is finished is two to three weeks.

Thirty days’ notice ends it and everything is portable. The DNS records were always on your domain because they were always yours, and your templates, suppression list and sending history come back in a standard format. We will also tell you what to point your site at next so the mail does not simply stop.

Sixty dollars a month, 25,000 delivered emails included, and the deliverability work done by us rather than by whoever has time.