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Amazon WorkMail vs Sparkpost comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

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)
Sparkpost
Ranking in Cloud Email
11th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
1
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.
Rastu Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
A consistent solution for transaction emails with a great option to define speed
The option to define the kind of speed we are looking at is valuable. For example, sometimes, we need to slow down for certain customers and do specific configurations, so we don't want to rush it. Or we can email the customer requesting to send it within two hours. So, if they send 2 million or 3 million, we can do it with SparkPost, which is not possible on SendGrid.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"There is no need for me to set up security."
"The most valuable thing is that emails sent through SES have a delivery rate of greater than ninety percent."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"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."
"It is very stable. I haven't faced any issues."
"Amazon SES is very easy to configure."
"The option to define the kind of speed we are looking at is valuable."
 

Cons

"Amazon WorkMail's user interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly."
"Email service is definitely a requirement from an enterprise standpoint. Many organizations have their own on-premise email services, which take a lot of memory, backup, and other resources. If we can have a completely managed backup solution where we have a tiered backup or a tiered archival to be able to retrieve emails, it would be great. I would like to be able to retrieve emails in real-time (hot retrieval), over the 90-days period (warm retrieval), and over the one-year period (cold retrieval). It would be useful to have tiered backup and retrieval. It would help us in managing emails better and have a better backup solution. So, backup is something that we require."
"There is room for improvement in the scalability."
"WorkMail is not available in all the regions."
"The only issue is the price, which is far too expensive."
"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."
"Implementing their services on the platform requires a lot of technical expertise."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's very cheap. The cheapest among all the services available."
"The solution should improve its price."
"WorkMail does require a license, it is, per user."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
18%
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.
What do you like most about Sparkpost?
The option to define the kind of speed we are looking at is valuable.
What needs improvement with Sparkpost?
The configuration could be more straightforward. However, implementing their services on the platform requires a lot of technical expertise.
What is your primary use case for Sparkpost?
Our primary use case for the solution is transactional emails. We deploy it both on a public and private cloud. We are also using it for most marketing campaigns and newsletters. In terms of transa...
 

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Amazon SES
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