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Pay08yesterday at 7:24 PM1 replyview on HN

It's an accusation that has been going around for a while, but I've never seen it substantiated.


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Benderyesterday at 7:37 PM

It's a negotiated price signed under NDA, is why most people have not seen details. If you are friends with your CFO and you email millions of gmail users directly likely because you are B2B ask them for the line item. If using a email campaign provider they will not disclose how much they negotiated to pay. Most B2B companies end up going with email marketing and campaign providers as it is far more cost effective than doing it in house even if you have highly experience email postmasters which my team had it just was not our core business model and I could not justify the FTE's.

As just one example, sending high volume emails from Amazon requires using Amazon SES [1]. Some people here are familiar with sending from SES vs. trying to send high volumes directly from EC2 instances.

[1] - https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/