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Re:Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed by rgbrenner on Sunday July 13, 2014 @04:46PM (#8028511)
SES is really the only AWS service that has not been done by anyone else as far as I know.

sendgrid is like 5 years old: http://sendgrid.com/

mailchimp's version: http://mandrill.com/

rackspace: http://www.mailgun.com/

also: https://postmarkapp.com/

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Re:Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed by dm2 on Sunday July 13, 2014 @04:53PM (#8028530)
I had never explored Mandrill, thanks.

SES is still the cheapest (especially when scaling up) and extremely fast from my experience with it.

Here is a good article I found about SES and competitors such as Mandrill: http://www.ventureharbour.com/transactional-email-service-be...

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Re:Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed by wavefunction on Sunday July 13, 2014 @11:28PM (#8029412)
The difference betwen SES and Mandrill? With Mandrill you'll be patronizing a great company with some fantastic folks.

(First used MailChimp in 2003 and they've always been the bomb.)

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Re:Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed by dm2 on Sunday July 13, 2014 @11:46PM (#8029438)
Before 2012 (when they launched Mandrill) MailChimp used Amazon SES. http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f7b9ee22124ff6454424dc10...

The Mandrill service is nice, I agree.

Also, MailChimp has a very cool 404 page: http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/transactional-reports-overvi...

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