Amazon SES (inbound) email provider statistics and deliverability context
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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 12, 2026), Amazon SES (inbound) is the mailbox provider for 4,554 domains — 0.68% of 665,310 domains with MX records. Its strongest TLD is .com (46.1% of its domains). Detection: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Last updated from the 2026-09-12 DNS snapshot.
What Amazon SES (inbound) represents in this dataset
Amazon SES receiving endpoint, also used by WorkMail. The MX alone does not identify the downstream mailbox product.
Directory category: Esp. The classification comes from primary MX record (lowest preference). It describes observed DNS infrastructure, not a commercial relationship and not the placement of any individual message.
What the 2026-09-12 snapshot shows about Amazon SES (inbound)
Across 288 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (46.1%), .net (6.6%), .jp (5.7%) — together 58.3% of the 4,554 domains, which makes the footprint moderately concentrated, with a recognisable home market. The service most often observed on the same domains is Amazon SES (ESP, 2,174 domains, 47.7% of them), followed by Zendesk (2.8%). Directly comparable by the same detection rule: Self-Hosted, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365. Ranking between them reflects what is published in DNS, not delivery quality or volume sent. All figures come from a single daily DNS snapshot (2026-09-12); a domain appears here when its published records match the primary MX record (lowest preference) rule, which is an infrastructure fact, not a commercial relationship.
Commonly used together with Amazon SES (inbound)
What else the same 4,554 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-12).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Amazon SES (inbound) users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Amazon SES | 2,174 | 47.7% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 127 | 2.8% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 127 | 2.8% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 87 | 1.9% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 65 | 1.4% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 64 | 1.4% |
| ESP | Salesforce | 60 | 1.3% |
| ESP | HubSpot | 44 | 1.0% |
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 36 | 0.8% |
| ESP | Brevo (ex-Sendinblue) | 35 | 0.8% |
TLD distribution (top 30 of 288)
Frequently asked questions
How many domains use Amazon SES (inbound)?
4,554 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Amazon SES (inbound) as their mailbox provider as of September 12, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
What is Amazon SES (inbound)'s market share?
Amazon SES (inbound) holds 0.68% of domains with MX records in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-12). The number is recomputed every day.
What are the biggest alternatives to Amazon SES (inbound)?
The largest mailbox providers in the same category by Tranco top-1M share are: Self-Hosted, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Unknown / Other, Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (as of 2026-09-12).
Largest mailbox providers in this category
Self-Hosted (22.39%) · Google Workspace (21.66%) · Microsoft 365 (16.96%) · Unknown / Other (6.60%) · Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (2.54%) · Generic / unmatched (mail.*) (1.94%) · Proofpoint (1.88%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.75%) · Yandex 360 (1.61%) · Mimecast (1.46%)
Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)
Showing 100 of 4,554 domains.