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		gtsteve on Oct 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthl... If the author is using a micro instance in the first year, there is no charge [0]. Also, the author only needs to start the instance when he needs it, so the costs would be minimal. Furthermore, only transfer out of AWS is billed; there's no cost to upload, which is what I imagine would be the bulk of the work. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/free/

disiplus on Oct 18, 2017 [–]

how does he deal with unsubscribe if his server is offline after sending ?

gtsteve on Oct 18, 2017 | [–]

Very good point! I guess the cheapest way to do that on AWS would be with a Lambda function.

Or perhaps he already has his own web infrastructure not on AWS that contains the list.

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