# Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for reliable, cheap email delivery through AWS, with per-use pricing people say is hard to beat. Critics find its editor clumsy and dislike the AWS tie-in.

## Why people recommend it

- Reliable email delivery (1 comments): "you can still use SES to deliver your mail. Delivery is not an issue here." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559887))
- Pricing hard to beat (1 comments): "can't beat that SES pricing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355023))
- Stores mail in your S3 bucket (1 comments): "your emails land in your own bucket — no third-party inbox" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668519))
- Good fit for AWS users (1 comments): "Especially if you send emails through the AWS mail service." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052851))

## What people warn about

- Clumsy editor and console (1 comments): "Simple editor (God knows we had to do it more than a few times) & AWS sucks at it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035406))
- Some want to leave AWS (1 comments): "im looking to ditch SES, one of the last services i have running on AWS" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45979929))
- Tied to AWS ecosystem (1 comments): "Especially if you send emails through the AWS mail service." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052851))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Cloudflare Email Service](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-email-service.md): 27 recommend
- [Amazon SES](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-ses.md): 19 recommend
- [Postmark](https://hackerapproved.com/p/postmark.md): 9 recommend
- [AWS SES](https://hackerapproved.com/p/aws-ses.md): 8 recommend
- [SMTP2GO](https://hackerapproved.com/p/smtp2go.md): 7 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://aws.amazon.com/ses/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)", https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-simple-email-service/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).