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This gotta be against AWS's term... When you sign up for AWS SES, they ask you very detailed questions about how you'll monitor bounces, deal with spam reports, etc. I don't see how you can do that and then hand your keys to another service to do things in there own way.

Also, what is the point of giving this service your AWS creds rather than them using AWS directly? Since they charge you anyway?

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> Also, what is the point of giving this service your AWS creds rather than them using AWS directly? Since they charge you anyway?

Presumably so that if/when the service gets abused and Amazon decides to ban the offending account, it doesn't take down absolutely everyone on their service.

Seems like the in between of a managed service and raw AWS trying to take advantage of individual AWS accounts having a free tier.

So have the customer make the account, take advantage of the free 10k emails a month to claim a lower price.

I don’t see the point in it. I doubt there will be much customer service if problems happen. Maybe if you’re trying to launch a free newsletter or something but otherwise it’s worth paying for peace of mind and potential lost time. You don’t want to deal with emails not getting sent or issues with the service when you’re focused on growing your company.

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