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Amazon WorkMail vs Sparkpost comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon WorkMail
Ranking in Cloud Email
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Email Applications (4th)
Sparkpost
Ranking in Cloud Email
19th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Email category, the mindshare of Amazon WorkMail is 6.5%, down from 11.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sparkpost is 1.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Email Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Amazon WorkMail6.5%
Sparkpost1.8%
Other91.7%
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Featured Reviews

Ramkumar  Kolpurath - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder & CTO at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Seamless email communication improves cost-effectiveness and security with valuable tracking features
The features of Amazon WorkMail that I have found the most valuable so far include sending emails and tracking whether the email is read or not. I find the feature that checks how many emails have been successfully sent and how many of them have been opened very useful, because in our application, we know the usage of the emails. The encryption of emails, both in transit and at rest, has benefited our security strategy as it is a layer of security that provides us better confidence for customers and also internally tracks the security aspects. The encryption meets my expectations.
Rastu Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant - Email Deliverability at Adobe
A consistent solution for transaction emails with a great option to define speed
The option to define the kind of speed we are looking at is valuable. For example, sometimes, we need to slow down for certain customers and do specific configurations, so we don't want to rush it. Or we can email the customer requesting to send it within two hours. So, if they send 2 million or 3 million, we can do it with SparkPost, which is not possible on SendGrid.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We use the tool for transactional emails and marketing."
"Amazon SES can handle a high volume of emails, making it suitable for organizations with large email lists or that need to send a large number of emails on a regular basis."
"The best feature is that Amazon SES provides verified email messages."
"The most valuable thing is that emails sent through SES have a delivery rate of greater than ninety percent."
"The encryption of emails, both in transit and at rest, has benefited our security strategy as it is a layer of security that provides us better confidence for customers and also internally tracks the security aspects."
"It is highly available and scalable. It is also highly reliable. I don't lose any of the messages or emails. If there is an issue where the email sent operation failed, Amazon as a platform ensures that the send operation is retried, and the email reaches its destination. This way, it is highly reliable."
"It is very stable. I haven't faced any issues."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"The option to define the kind of speed we are looking at is valuable."
 

Cons

"The solution is quite low-level and lacks some advanced features. For example, it doesn't provide tracking capabilities, such as knowing how many users opened an email, which is crucial for email marketing. You would need to integrate these analytics with other tools to get them. I need to know if there has been a bounce and how customers interacted with the email."
"The only issue is the price, which is far too expensive."
"Email service is definitely a requirement from an enterprise standpoint. Many organizations have their own on-premise email services, which take a lot of memory, backup, and other resources. If we can have a completely managed backup solution where we have a tiered backup or a tiered archival to be able to retrieve emails, it would be great. I would like to be able to retrieve emails in real-time (hot retrieval), over the 90-days period (warm retrieval), and over the one-year period (cold retrieval). It would be useful to have tiered backup and retrieval. It would help us in managing emails better and have a better backup solution. So, backup is something that we require."
"Amazon WorkMail's user interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly."
"I would like to see detailed reports on email success and failure rates."
"There is room for improvement in the support. It's just that customer support, though good, takes time to resolve issues."
"There is room for improvement in the scalability."
"WorkMail is not available in all the regions."
"Implementing their services on the platform requires a lot of technical expertise."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the solution's pricing as one out of ten. It is close to being cheap. Sometimes, the tool offers a generous amount of free messages, up to 40,000, which is great for startups like ours. This means that we don't accumulate any costs for some months because we stay within the free usage tier. When we exceed the free allocation, the costs are reasonable, and no hidden charges exist."
"WorkMail does require a license, it is, per user."
"It's very cheap. The cheapest among all the services available."
"The solution should improve its price."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Retailer
7%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon WorkMail?
We use the tool for transactional emails and marketing.
What needs improvement with Amazon WorkMail?
We are satisfied with Amazon WorkMail, as it is able to send emails and provide receipts, including the read and other statuses. Since we are doing more API side integrations, there does not seem t...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon WorkMail?
From the communication aspects, working with Amazon WorkMail has been seamless and cost-effective. My customers do not make any use of Amazon WorkMail's compatibility with Microsoft Active Director...
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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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