Amazon WorkMail vs Google Workspace comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google are both solutions in the Email Applications category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.5, while Google is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 9.7% mindshare in EA, compared to Google’s 22.2% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Google users who would recommend it.

Amazon WorkMail

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84% willing to recommend

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Google Workspace and Amazon WorkMail compete in the enterprise email and collaboration tools category. Google Workspace seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive collaboration features and broader integration capabilities.

Features: Google Workspace offers scalability, affordability, and integration with platforms, suitable for businesses familiar with Gmail. Its collaboration tools like Google Drive and Hangouts ensure dependable service, especially for mobile device integration and real-time document sharing. Amazon WorkMail provides a robust managed solution setup with impressive scalability and AWS service integration.

Room for Improvement: Google Workspace users report frequent logouts, integration issues with Outlook, and occasional service outages. Amazon WorkMail needs better scalability, technical support, and improved user interfaces, with limited regional service availability and challenging advanced features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Google Workspace is known for efficient public cloud deployment and versatile scaling options but suffers from limited direct customer support, relying on forums and tutorials. Amazon WorkMail offers flexible deployment across cloud models with quick response customer service, though advanced technical support is sometimes inadequate.

Pricing and ROI: Google Workspace's pricing is perceived as slightly high but offers comprehensive feature integration, noted for competitive pricing against Microsoft products with discounts for educational institutions. Amazon WorkMail is viewed as costly relative to its features, despite a startup-friendly free tier. The ROI for both is strong with productivity enhancements, though WorkMail's costs may overshadow these benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon WorkMail

Ranking in Email Applications

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Email (2nd)

Google Workspace

Ranking in Email Applications

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

Wireless Email (2nd), Cloud Storage (6th), Content Collaboration Platforms (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Email Applications category, the mindshare of Amazon WorkMail is 9.7%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Workspace is 22.2%, down from 24.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Michael Olayemi

Senior Software Engineer at Checkit

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.

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Sunil-Nair

IT Manager at Universal Carpets & Rugs

Email collaboration and accessibility have improved team productivity

The valuable features include the email service, email updates, and Google Drive. People are given email access to Google Drive. The team can share manual files and work accordingly. They can access different teams from anywhere, collectively putting files, sharing them, and managing them. Additionally, the manufacturing product does not require any downgrades. It works fine and continuously for the last three or four years. Users can access their emails from anywhere in their browser without a laptop or can directly access from Gmail. This is helpful for salespeople.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is very stable. I haven't faced any issues."

"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."

"There is no need for me to set up security."

"It is highly available and scalable. It is also highly reliable. I don't lose any of the messages or emails. If there is an issue where the email sent operation failed, Amazon as a platform ensures that the send operation is retried, and the email reaches its destination. This way, it is highly reliable."

"The product is very user-friendly."

"We use the tool for transactional emails and marketing."

"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."

"Amazon SES is very easy to configure."

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"In terms of email, I could probably do the same things with other programs, however, I find 90% of my usage is Gmail."

"Google seems to be a more stable environment than our current on-premise Microsoft solution that we're replacing."

"The most valuable feature of Google Workspace is the sheets and documents."

"The initial setup is easy because it's all pre-configured."

"The solution's technical support is very good."

"I think it is a great subscription for me. I think it is important, especially when making an internal email subscription. For example, I can easily create my colleague's email address, and we can use it. I benefited from G Suite. I am using the G Suite Drive, which provides 30GB of storage, and it is helping for me. I think it's better for me."

"We value the collaboration levels that are offered. Having everything integrated in a single platform is a dream come true for us."

"Good performance, even on relatively slow connections; no local apps required."

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Cons

"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."

"WorkMail is not available in all the regions."

"When we first set up an email on Amazon SES, they had to verify it, which was not fast enough."

"I would like to see detailed reports on email success and failure rates."

"The product should improve technical support."

"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."

"There is room for improvement in the support. It's just that customer support, though good, takes time to resolve issues."

"The only issue is the price, which is far too expensive."

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"Google Workspace has limitations as a document or file management system. Without a workspace account, manual actions are required to perform tasks such as managing groups of people. Additionally, managing permissions individually is a time-consuming and inefficient process. It's difficult to articulate, but the process is not very streamlined."

"I am not a big fan of how Gmail organizes the mail. I find it complicated to see which mail from which users send at which date. Especially if there is a lot."

"I'm not sure if Google Drive has a customizing feature, however, if it did, then it would be better."

"The synchronization is a bit of an issue."

"The UI could be more graphic and sassy, but otherwise, it is quite functional."

"For Google Docs, if you upload a Word document up to Google Docs, it could mess up your formatting quite a bit."

"We use Zoom most of the time for official meetings, and we use Google Meet only for internal meetings. I would like to get an improvised Google Meet. It would be good if they can make Google Meet more clear in communication and more scalable like Zoom."

"G Suite could offer something a little more solid in terms of chat — something that is a little more like Slack and integrates with everything. But, unfortunately, the chat is very basic there. It doesn't offer that many features and feels like it doesn't belong there."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution should improve its price."

"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."

"It's very cheap. The cheapest among all the services available."

"WorkMail does require a license, it is, per user."

"The pricing is very high, although I cannot tell if this is the result of the Indian vendors artificially inflating it."

"It's low in cost as compared to Office 365. There is an annual licensing cost."

"Approximately $6 per user, per month."

"The main challenge regarding startups with identity services is you could be on a platform that works well but the services are expensive. For example, Microsoft Azure costs approximately $30 per user which is expensive. You end up choosing a different platform, such as G Suite Enterprise because it is priced reasonably and is less expensive than other solutions."

"There are benefits that can provide a competitive advantage, e.g., improved productivity (with appropriate training), increased collaboration (with correct use of tools), flexible working - work from home or remote locations, easy to scale - fast onboarding of new employees, and ability to add and remove licenses, as required."

"There are several areas where a G Suite implementation can reduce costs: lower license fees than some competing products, reduced hardware, and IT support costs."

"G Suite and Microsoft Office 365 offer products with similar functionality at several different price points. Zoho offer a more extensive range of products and attempts to provide all the applications required to run most small and medium-sized businesses."

"I rate Google Workspace's pricing five to six out of ten. We do not pay any extra costs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

University

Comms Service Provider

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon WorkMail?

We use the tool for transactional emails and marketing.

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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.

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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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What do you like most about Google Workspace?

Easy-to-build forms are allowing me to get feedback and information from my internal teams as well as from the customers very efficiently with the result data in structured manner.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Workspace?

The pricing for Google Workspace is moderate. I would rate it a five out of ten, indicating it is neither cheap nor expensive. The current cost is approximately seven to ten euros per user per mont...

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What needs improvement with Google Workspace?

I do not have any major suggestions for improvement. However, while the security functionalities are similar to those in competitors like Active Directory, they could be optimized for stronger secu...

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Also Known As

Amazon SES

G-Suite Enterprise, G-Suite, Google Apps for Business, G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G-Suite Basic, G-Suite Business, Google Vault

Overview

Amazon WorkMail is a secure, managed business email and calendar service with support for existing desktop and mobile email client applications. Amazon WorkMail gives users the ability to seamlessly access their email, contacts, and calendars using the client application of their choice, including Microsoft Outlook, native iOS and Android email applications, any client application supporting the IMAP protocol, or directly through a web browser. You can integrate Amazon WorkMail with your existing corporate directory, use email journaling to meet compliance requirements, and control both the keys that encrypt your data and the location in which your data is stored. You can also set up interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server, and programmatically manage users, groups, and resources using the Amazon WorkMail SDK.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Similar to G Suite, all Google Workspace plans provide a custom email for your business and include collaboration tools like Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and more.

As we’ve evolved G Suite into a more integrated experience across our communication and collaboration tools, we’ve rebranded to Google Workspace to more accurately represent the product vision.

Google

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

There are over five million businesses that use Google Apps for Business worldwide. Some key customers include The Roche Group, National Geographic, American Red Cross, City of Los Angeles, Flight Centre, and Konica Minolta.

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