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The Amazon SES alternative for developers
Amazon SES is the cheapest way to send at scale and the most assembly-required way to do anything else: sending starts sandboxed behind an AWS approval, bounce and complaint handling is your Lambda to write, and receiving means raw MIME dropped in an S3 bucket you fetch and parse yourself. Here's a fair comparison, and what MailKite does differently — send the moment DNS verifies, inbound as parsed JSON, no S3/SNS/Lambda/IAM.