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- Free allowance
- 3,000 message charges/month for the first 12 months, or $200 of AWS credits over 6 months for new accounts
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe account starts in the sandbox and sends only to verified identities until a quota-increase request is approved
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | 3,000 message charges/month for the first 12 months, or $200 of AWS credits over 6 months for new accounts unit requests; metered on request-count |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate 3,000 message charges per month for 12 months from first use source
- write-gated (binding) the account starts in the sandbox and sends only to verified identities until a quota-increase request is approved source
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| Binding | write-gated the sandbox blocks arbitrary recipients from the first send; the 3,000/month is second. |
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| Identity | card an AWS account with a payment method |
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| Egress | not applicable: an outbound sender |
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| Interface | rest https://email.REGION.amazonaws.com, and the SES SMTP endpoint |
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| Tooling | aws-cli, any SMTP client |
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| Composes with | the cheapest real bulk rate in the topic, USD 0.10 per 1,000, behind a sandbox that every new account starts in. It composes with Plunk self-host as the paid chain. |
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| Reliability | the sandbox is a write gate on every new account and the quota increase is a support request |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | aws.amazon.com/ses/faqs/ | 'Receive up to 3,000 message charges for free each month for the first 12 months after you start using SES', and the sandbox restriction |
| 2026-10-22 | aws.amazon.com/ses/faqs/ | 'Starting July 15, 2025, new AWS customers will receive up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits' with a 6-month free plan |
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