AWS to remove 62,000-message Simple Email Service ‘always free’ tier
I know everyone says it&#x27;s not practical to run your own mail server, but I wonder if it&#x27;s something I should have another look at.  Even though this article says the cost of SES is 12:1 vs self managed infrastructure, and it&#x27;s likely that SES is on the cheaper side of things, it&#x27;s not really about the cost for me, it&#x27;s about the loss of control.<p>I don&#x27;t like having the potential for changes I can&#x27;t control.  It almost feels like I need two of everything just to be safe.<p>I wish some of the up-and-coming auth systems (ex: logto.io) would have some kind of tiered fallback for transactional email.  For example, I have self hosted mail that&#x27;s tier 1 (use first), AWS SES as tier 2 (use for failover), and Postmark as tier 3 (use as a last resort).<p>The reason I list Postmark last is because there <i>is</i> a point where price becomes a factor for me.  If Postmark is 10x SES for 50k messages, and SES is 12x self managed infrastructure, that&#x27;s 120x costs (12,000% markup), right?  I feel like that&#x27;s so expensive I might have gotten it wrong, so please correct me if I did.