Apple Mail (iCloud) vs Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Comparison (2024)
What are the differences between Apple Mail (iCloud) and Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)?
Written by
Forward Email Team
Published
5/1/24
Time to read
Less than 5 minutes
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Email Service Comparison
20 facts in comparisonApple Mail (iCloud) | vs. | Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) |
---|---|---|
Apple Mail (iCloud)"Private, secure, and personal email from Apple" | vs. | Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)"Get reliable, scalable email to communicate with customers at the lowest industry prices" |
$0.99 | Pricing | $X/mo; varies, using shared IP's from SES are known to have negative effect on deliverability |
50 GB pooled | Storage | No Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) does not support storage |
20 MB | Attachments | 10 MB |
No | Open-Source | No |
No | Sandboxed Encryption | No |
No | Unlimited Domains | No |
No | Unlimited Aliases | No |
No | TTI | No |
Yes | SMTP | Yes |
Yes | IMAP | No |
❌ iCloud does not support POP3 | POP3 | No |
No | API | Yes |
No | E2EE | No |
No | OpenPGP | No |
No | WKD | No |
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Why use us as your email provider?
What makes us different than others?
- We're the only 100% open-source provider
- We don't rely on any third parties (we don't use Amazon SES or an alternative like others)
- Our pricing allows you to scale cost effectively (we don't charge per user and you can pay as you go for storage)
- Unlike others, your email with us is not stored in a shared relational database alongside everyone else
- We're the world's first and only email service to use quantum-safe and individually encrypted SQLite mailboxes
Did you know?
Other email services advertise as open-source, but they do not release the source code to their back-end. The back-end is the most sensitive part of an email provider. It is also important to use 100% open-source because it builds trust and allows anyone to contribute and independently audit.
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