Amazon SES vs Apostle.io vs Mailgun

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Pros of Amazon SES
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Pros of Mailgun
  • 102
    Reliable
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    Cheap
  • 57
    Integrates with other aws services
  • 52
    Easy setup
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    Trackable
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    Easy rails setup
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    Outsources handlebars template interpolation
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    Integrates with mailgun, sendgrid, mandrill, smtp
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    Easy setup
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    Rails, ruby, python, php, javascript, curl
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    Analytics
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    Awesome
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    Great editor with handlebars
  • 178
    Quick email integration
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    Free plan
  • 91
    Easy setup
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    Ridiculously reliable
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    Extensive apis
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    Great for parsing inbound emails
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    Nice UI
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    Developer-centric
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    Excellent customer support
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    Heroku Add-on
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    Easy to view logs of sent emails
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    Email mailbox management for developers
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    Great PHP library
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    Great documentation
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    Great customer support, love rackspace
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    Better than sendgrid not ask too many question

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Cons of Amazon SES
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        Cost
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        No HTTPS tracking links supported
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        Emails go to spam due to blacklisted IP's of mailgun
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        Cannot create multiple api keys

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      What is Amazon SES?

      Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2.

      What is Apostle.io?

      Transactional emails are the forgotten step child of internet marketers. Apostle.io empowers marketers to manage transactional emails themselves, as they would their list based campaigns. Preview, Update, Analyse and Test your transactional email all in one place.

      What is Mailgun?

      Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly.

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      What are some alternatives to Amazon SES, Apostle.io, and Mailgun?
      Twilio SendGrid
      Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's.
      Mailchimp
      MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It's like your own personal publishing platform.
      Amazon SNS
      Amazon Simple Notification Service makes it simple and cost-effective to push to mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, and internet connected smart devices, as well as pushing to other distributed services. Besides pushing cloud notifications directly to mobile devices, SNS can also deliver notifications by SMS text message or email, to Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues, or to any HTTP endpoint.
      Mandrill
      Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp.
      AWeber
      It is an email marketing service provider with over 100,000 small business clients world wide. It helps people keep in touch with the subscribers who have requested to be on their mailing list.
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