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How much it Costs to Run a Mass Emailing Platform built using AWS Lambda?

Jay Sitapara on September 25, 2018

New York Times sends out 4 Billion emails per year. That's a huge number! Although we don't send out these many emails, we send out half a million ...
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Erebos Manannán • Edited

$0 + $4.10 + $0.02 = $49.44

Sounds like you skipped a few steps, like the fact that you're giving costs per month, and total per year.

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Jay Sitapara

Yes. Thanks for suggesting. I've edited for better understanding.

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Deepak Goyal

A good use case for lambda. However not mentioning anything about lambda execution time which is the main component of lambda costing. You can check my blog post theabcofcloud.com/lambda-vs-ec2-cost/ for different use cases for lambda and ec2 costs

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Anuradha

Is this setup eligible for the SES free tier?

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Matt Wascak

Where you doing S/MIME and DKIM with Lambda as well?