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Emails are sent using your own AWS SES account, which will handle all of that. No real concern of people sending spam because they would be damaging their own SES reputation.

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Well that’s not a MailChimp alternative my friend. That’s a wrapper around SNS, there’s a reason those of us in marketing wouldn’t accept this.

I don’t even like MailChimp but there’s a real reason to use an app like them/similar. They help you not screw up "all of that" is complicated.

And mailchimp is a wrapper of other tech, but it's still its own thing.

This is only true if you are using dedicated IPs with SES (~$30/month each). However, SES is pretty good at managing IP reputation even for the shared IP service, and I haven't had any issues in over 10 years of building systems on top of it.

But have you had issues when sending SES emails to Outlook/Hotmail clients? For some reason those clients block emails coming from SES

That’s because you have to pay Microsoft to send marketing email at any real volume to their services.

Typically via ReturnPath. It’s basically a scam, but everyone pays for it.

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