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Amazon SES vs Amazon SNS: What are the differences?
Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) and Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) are two distinct AWS services that differ in terms of functionality, message routing, persistence, and broadcasting capabilities. Let's explore the key differences between Amazon SES and Amazon SNS:
Functionality: Amazon SES is designed for high-volume email delivery, supporting transactional and marketing emails. Amazon SNS focuses on flexible message publishing and delivery across various channels, including email, SMS, and push notifications.
Message Routing: Amazon SES delivers emails directly to individual recipients based on provided recipient addresses. Amazon SNS enables message routing and distribution to multiple subscribers based on their subscriptions and preferences.
Persistence: Messages sent through Amazon SES are not stored after they are successfully delivered. On the other hand, Amazon SNS retains messages for a specific timeframe, enabling subscribers to retrieve any missed messages and ensuring the durability of the messages.
Broadcasting: Amazon SES delivers emails individually to each recipient. Amazon SNS supports broadcast-style messaging, enabling simultaneous delivery of messages to multiple subscribers.
In summary, Amazon SES specializes in high-volume email delivery, serving as a reliable solution for businesses requiring efficient email communication. Amazon SNS offers flexible message publishing and delivery across multiple channels, allowing targeted message routing, persistence, and broadcast-style messaging.
Of course we chose Coresender to send our own transactional emails :) So I thought I'll let you know how we use it.
We set up separate sending accounts for all company needs, eg. transactional emails, monitoring alerts, time to inbox. We even configured our office printers to send emails through Coresender.
We have a real-time and extremely usable view into what emails go through each account, so each time anybody reports an email not arriving we're able to assist them in a few seconds
We utilize our message timeline feature, so we can learn eg. if people are clicking on password reset links
We always know how many of our onboarding emails are being opened which helps us improve them
Finally, we have full controll over our suppressions lists, so we can add (and remove!) from them whenever necessary.
To sum up, at Coresender we're eating our own dogfood and it helps us stay connected to the product and understand our customers better.
Pros of Amazon SES
- Reliable102
- Cheap96
- Integrates with other aws services57
- Easy setup52
- Trackable18
- Easy rails setup2
Pros of Amazon SNS
- Low cost12
- Supports multi subscribers6
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