Amazon SES email provider statistics and deliverability context

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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 26, 2026), Amazon SES is the email service provider (ESP) for 38,921 domains — 6.17% of 630,738 SPF-publishing domains. Its share has been stable over the last 30 days. Its strongest TLD is .com (49.6% of its domains). Detection: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.

Last updated from the 2026-07-26 DNS snapshot.

38,921domains
6.17%of SPF-publishing domains
-0.01 ppshare, 30 days
458distinct TLDs
2026-07-26snapshot (updated daily)

What Amazon SES represents in this dataset

AWS Simple Email Service — high-volume cloud email backbone for AWS workloads.

Directory category: Esp. The classification comes from include: mechanisms in the SPF record. It describes observed DNS infrastructure, not a commercial relationship and not the placement of any individual message.

What the 2026-07-26 snapshot shows about Amazon SES

Across 458 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (49.6%), .org (4.5%), .com.br (3.1%) — together 57.2% of the 38,921 domains, which makes the footprint moderately concentrated, with a recognisable home market. The service most often observed on the same domains is Google Workspace (Mailbox, 14,591 domains, 37.5% of them), followed by Microsoft 365 (25.0%). Its share of SPF-publishing domains has not moved measurably in 30 days. Year-over-year the share is +0.42 pp, so the 30-day move is against the longer trend. Directly comparable by the same detection rule: SendGrid (Twilio), Mailgun, Zendesk. Ranking between them reflects what is published in DNS, not delivery quality or volume sent. All figures come from a single daily DNS snapshot (2026-07-26); a domain appears here when its published records match the include: mechanisms in the SPF record rule, which is an infrastructure fact, not a commercial relationship.

Commonly used together with Amazon SES

What else the same 38,921 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-07-26).

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Amazon SES users
MailboxGoogle Workspace14,59137.5%
MailboxMicrosoft 3659,72925.0%
MailboxSelf-Hosted2,6876.9%
MailboxAmazon WorkMail2,2285.7%
MailboxUnknown / Other1,5794.1%
MailboxMimecast1,0232.6%
ESPZendesk4,45711.5%
ESPSendGrid (Twilio)4,17910.7%
ESPHubSpot3,5749.2%
ESPMailchimp3,3038.5%

TLD distribution (top 30 of 458)

com — 19,294 (49.6%)
org — 1,749 (4.5%)
com.br — 1,207 (3.1%)
net — 1,075 (2.8%)
de — 1,065 (2.7%)
io — 811 (2.1%)
co.uk — 791 (2.0%)
jp — 779 (2.0%)
com.au — 536 (1.4%)
co.jp — 496 (1.3%)
nl — 471 (1.2%)
it — 464 (1.2%)
ro — 438 (1.1%)
co — 374 (1.0%)
fr — 357 (0.9%)
edu — 351 (0.9%)
ai — 340 (0.9%)
ca — 309 (0.8%)
es — 273 (0.7%)
in — 254 (0.7%)
ru — 242 (0.6%)
se — 227 (0.6%)
pl — 216 (0.6%)
gov — 213 (0.5%)
com.ar — 209 (0.5%)
app — 177 (0.5%)
cl — 175 (0.4%)
be — 171 (0.4%)
ch — 169 (0.4%)
eu — 161 (0.4%)

Frequently asked questions

How many domains use Amazon SES?

38,921 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Amazon SES as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 26, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

What is Amazon SES's market share?

Amazon SES holds 6.17% of SPF-publishing domains in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-07-26). The number is recomputed every day.

Is Amazon SES growing or declining?

Amazon SES's share has been stable over the last 30 days (±0.01 pp).

What are the biggest alternatives to Amazon SES?

The largest email service provider (ESP)s in the same category by Tranco top-1M share are: SendGrid (Twilio), Mailgun, Zendesk, Mailchimp, Mandrill (as of 2026-07-26).

Largest email service provider (ESP)s in this category

SendGrid (Twilio) (4.76%) · Mailgun (4.11%) · Zendesk (3.83%) · Mailchimp (3.70%) · Mandrill (3.36%) · HubSpot (3.19%) · Salesforce (2.62%) · Mailjet (Sinch) (2.13%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.82%) · Brevo (ex-Sendinblue) (1.45%)

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Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)

Showing 100 of 38,921 domains.