Amazon announces service to send email (Amazon SES)

Yesterday I received a letter similar to the following:

We are pleased to announce the beta release of Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) - a highly scalable and cheap service for sending email to businesses and developers. Amazon SES eliminates the need to build your own expensive and complicated solution or to license, install, and maintain a turnkey solution. The new service integrates with other Amazon (AWS) services, making it easier to send emails from applications running on platforms like Amazon EC2. With Amazon SES, you do not need to enter into long-term contracts and negotiate - just enjoy low rates for the number of sent emails + traffic.

Building large solutions for sending marketing and transactional letters is usually a difficult and expensive task. In order to increase the percentage of delivered letters, it is necessary to overcome obstacles such as maintaining mail servers, configuring the network and satisfying the provider's requirements for letters. In addition, most third-party solutions require contracting and price negotiation, as well as a significant advance payment.

Amazon SES eliminates these inconveniences and allows you to benefit from the experience gained by Amazon in building the infrastructure for your own email service for Amazon.com. Using a simple API, developers can access a scalable infrastructure for efficient and low-cost communication with customers. You can be sure that Amazon SES can meet your needs. The built-in API for receiving feedback provides the data you need to monitor the quality of your letters and maintain good relations with your customers.

As an Amazon SES client, you don’t need to build your solution from scratch or license, install and maintain someone else’s solution; instead, you can start sending emails in minutes using AWS for Java and .NET tools or writing your own interface using HTTPS on any programming language.
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Amazon can scale efficiently for a customer and the price of Amazon SES is only $ 0.10 per 1000 emails sent. In addition, you can send up to 2,000 emails per day for free if they are sent from Amazon EC2 or AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Detailed information about Amazon SES and details of how to start using the service can be found at the following links:

• Amazon SES Detail Page and Pricing
• Amazon SES Getting Started Guide

In my opinion, an interesting solution - I am going to try in the near future.