euromail vs Amazon SES
For European senders weighing Amazon SES (the AWS workhorse) against an EU-native alternative. Honest differences, no scare tactics, including where Amazon SES is the better choice.
| euromail.dev | Amazon SES | |
|---|---|---|
| EU data residency | All data processed and stored in Finland. No US subprocessors, no transatlantic transfers, not subject to the US CLOUD Act. | EU regions available (eu-west-1, eu-north-1), but AWS is US-headquartered, so data remains subject to the US CLOUD Act regardless of region |
| Data processing agreement | DPA included on every plan, including Free, not gated behind Enterprise. | AWS DPA covers SES, with Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers |
| Deliverability visibility | Deliverability insights included free: live delivery latency, DMARC monitoring, Google Postmaster + Microsoft SNDS integration. We publish our own numbers at /deliverability/. | Virtual Deliverability Manager costs extra (from $1,250/mo) |
| Inbound email | Core feature: inbound routes, mailboxes with lease/ack delivery, agent mailboxes for AI workloads. | Receiving available, stores to S3, assembly required |
| Pricing | Free tier (1,000 emails/mo), then from €25/mo. DPA, insights, and inbound on every plan. | $0.10 / 1,000 emails + infrastructure you assemble yourself |
SES is the right choice if you need extreme volume at the lowest unit price and you already live in AWS. At $0.10 per thousand emails, nothing beats it on cost, and if your data residency story already accepts AWS, euromail's main advantage doesn't apply to you.
The forcing event is usually a customer DPA: an enterprise or public-sector customer requires EU-only data processing, and Standard Contractual Clauses stop being enough. euromail's answer is structural, not contractual: everything runs in Finland, the DPA is on every plan, and GDPR export/erase tooling is built in. We publish our own live delivery numbers, sample sizes included, at euromail.dev/deliverability. When you're ready, the move is a config change, not a rewrite. The migration guide covers the API mapping, DNS dual-running, event delivery, and suppressions.