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Amazon WorkMail vs Constant Contact comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon WorkMail
Ranking in Cloud Email
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Email Applications (4th)
Constant Contact
Ranking in Cloud Email
15th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Michael Olayemi - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides free messages and helps to keep customers updated
The solution is quite low-level and lacks some advanced features. For example, it doesn't provide tracking capabilities, such as knowing how many users opened an email, which is crucial for email marketing. You would need to integrate these analytics with other tools to get them. I need to know if there has been a bounce and how customers interacted with the email. I would only suggest that Amazon WorkMail relax the rules for using Amazon SES in production. When you create an account, it starts in Sandbox mode, which means you can't use it in production right away. You must go through a process, message Amazon, and request to move it to production. Since Amazon is a big company, I feel customers shouldn't need this permission to use the service in production.
DG
Gives us a more professional face to our clients
Sometimes, you will be typing in a text box and hit the backspace, but the website will think you meant to go back a page. Basically, you end up losing work when this happens and it is hard to predict. Thus, I have learned to save often and every time I finish a piece of content that I like. I do wish this could be solved, but it is more of a browser issue than a Constant Contact issue. It would be cool if they made an actual app with their own skin to solve the issue with browser incompatibilities.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We use the tool for transactional emails and marketing."
"Amazon SES can handle a high volume of emails, making it suitable for organizations with large email lists or that need to send a large number of emails on a regular basis."
"Amazon WorkMail integrates with Route 53 and other AWS services, providing a seamless experience when using AWS infrastructure."
"Amazon SES is very easy to configure."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the Amazon WorkMail for me is the SMC server. It makes my work much easier, especially since I often work with Spring Boot. There are many built-in APIs in Spring Boot that help with messaging. What I appreciate about it is that it simplifies the process. I don't need to write much code; I define the credentials in my properties or environment variables. The Java Message API, an internal API from Spring Boot, does most of the work. I set up the properties and connected them to the SMC server, and I can send emails."
"The most valuable thing is that emails sent through SES have a delivery rate of greater than ninety percent."
"The best feature is that Amazon SES provides verified email messages."
"It is fun to design your newsletter based on the content you would like to deliver."
 

Cons

"There is room for improvement in the scalability."
"When we first set up an email on Amazon SES, they had to verify it, which was not fast enough."
"The product should improve technical support."
"I would like to see detailed reports on email success and failure rates."
"WorkMail is not available in all the regions."
"The only issue is the price, which is far too expensive."
"It would be ideal to have detailed data and reporting on email opens, clicks, bounces, and other metrics, as well as integration with other business intelligence tools."
"Amazon WorkMail's user interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly."
"Sometimes, you will be typing in a text box and hit the backspace, but the website will think you meant to go back a page. Basically, you end up losing work when this happens and it is hard to predict."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution should improve its price."
"It's very cheap. The cheapest among all the services available."
"I rate the solution's pricing as one out of ten. It is close to being cheap. Sometimes, the tool offers a generous amount of free messages, up to 40,000, which is great for startups like ours. This means that we don't accumulate any costs for some months because we stay within the free usage tier. When we exceed the free allocation, the costs are reasonable, and no hidden charges exist."
"WorkMail does require a license, it is, per user."
"The cost is fair, and you end up making enough in sales to pay for it."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
20%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon WorkMail?
We use the tool for transactional emails and marketing.
What needs improvement with Amazon WorkMail?
Amazon WorkMail's user interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly. Integration with Gmail using both SMTP and POP3 would be beneficial.
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon WorkMail?
Currently, I don't have any advice about using Amazon WorkMail. Since I only use AWS and am unfamiliar with its competitors, I can't recommend it.
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Sample Customers

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