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For receiving they only get 1,000 free, and for both after that it's $0.10/1,000 emails, which isn't very much at all.

> SES charges $0.09 per 1000 mail “chunks”, where a chunk is 256 Kb of data. This is on top of the base SES fee and S3 operation and storage fees.

> But it only charges for each complete chunk. So < 256KB is free, 256KB is $0.09/1000, etc.

Others elsewhere here have stated otherwise - haven't looked for the small print on AWS' page myself yet, though.

what if you get 10 billion unwanted messages? 900k bill?