Amazon SES
Does ZopNight manage Amazon SES?
Amazon SES bills per message sent and received, with per-GB charges for outgoing attachments and a monthly fee for each dedicated IP. Spend scales directly with sending volume, so anomalies usually mean runaway senders. ZopNight tracks SES cost from Cost Explorer or CUR 2.0 and trends usage to catch abandoned dedicated IPs too.
Rules that fire on Amazon SES
At a glance
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Scheduling notes | discovery and cost tracking only. |
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) sends and receives email at per-message rates plus data charges. SES cost scales with sending volume, and visibility helps catch runaway senders and abandoned dedicated IPs.
Metered by the message
SES charges per message: sending bills per thousand emails, and receiving has its own per-message rates, with attachment data billed per GB on top. The variable meter is honest but unbounded: nothing in SES itself caps what an application may send, so cost tracks whatever the noisiest sender does. The fixed add-ons are the subtler part: dedicated IP addresses bill monthly whether warm or abandoned, the Deliverability Dashboard carries a monthly subscription, and Virtual Deliverability Manager meters its own analysis. An account can hold spend-bearing SES configuration long after the sending application was retired.
Sending patterns under observation
ZopNight’s dedicated provider tracks SES cost from Cost Explorer or CUR 2.0 with usage trend analysis. Trend is the operative word for a volume-priced service: a step change in sending volume is either a business event or a defect. A notification loop, a retry storm against a bouncing list, a compromised credential feeding a spammer: each of those shows up in the cost series before anyone reads a deliverability report. Flat, low-volume spend paired with dedicated-IP fees points the other way: fixed trimmings left behind by a sender that no longer sends.
Email spend gone wrong
The runaway loop is the classic: an event triggers an email which triggers the event. Unpruned lists bill for sends that bounce, paying per message to damage sender reputation. Dedicated IPs from a deliverability project linger at their monthly rate after sending moved to a marketing platform. And sandbox-to-production graduations sometimes carry test harnesses that email real (billed) volume into mailboxes nobody checks.
Where SES shows its numbers
The SES console’s account dashboard shows sending statistics, reputation metrics, and dedicated IP inventory. Pairing the sending graph with the applications known to send, then asking who owns any dedicated IPs, covers most of the audit in one sitting.