Amazon Launches Bulk cloud computing E-Mail Service

| January 25, 2011 | Comments (1)

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Amazon Web Services Jan. 25 launched a bulk e-mail service for businesses and developers, providing a messaging option for the cloud computing provider’s arsenal of Web-based services.

AWS intends Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) as an alternative to the thorny work of building a custom messaging platform or licensing an e-mail service from a third party.

The company will host Amazon SES on its servers and integrate it with its existing cloud computing services. For example, customers of Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) will be able to send e-mails from applications built and hosted on EC2.

Adam Selipsky, vice president of AWS, said sending large quantities of e-mail from Amazon EC2 addresses a popular request customers have had.

At first blush, Amazon SES would seem to be a rival solution to Web-based e-mail systems such as Google’s Gmail, IBM’s LotusLive Notes or Microsoft’s Office 365.

However, business knowledge workers user those services to provide personal communications between and colleagues.

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About Onuora Amobi: Onuora Amobi is the founder and CEO of Nnigma, a leading online marketing firm headquartered in Pasadena, California. A Microsoft MVP with close to two decades of IT experience, he is also the co-author of the Windows 7 Deployment Guide for small businesses and IT Professionals(http://www.windows7deploymentguide.com). View author profile.