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Amazon WorkMail vs Zoho Campaigns comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon WorkMail
Ranking in Cloud Email
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Email Applications (4th)
Zoho Campaigns
Ranking in Cloud Email
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Email category, the mindshare of Amazon WorkMail is 7.7%, up from 6.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zoho Campaigns is 3.3%, down from 8.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Email Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon WorkMail7.7%
Zoho Campaigns3.3%
Other89.0%
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Featured Reviews

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Owner at Marinov
Centralized email accounts have streamlined routing, security checks, and long-term organization
While using Amazon WorkMail over time, I haven't encountered substantial disappointments, but there have been usual glitches with the web interface. For instance, while the service is generally 99.5% perfect, I experience issues like the folder structure I set up sometimes not remembering the state of expanded and collapsed nodes after refreshing the page. This lack of persistence in which nodes are collapsed or opened can be frustrating. However, since it's a minor technical issue, I doubt the average user would notice it. If Amazon WorkMail were not discontinuing, I wouldn't think there is much to improve or enhance about it. It is standard enough and easy to use, and any glitches are minor, not worth evolving or disrupting its current functionality. As for whether the user interface is intuitive and if I'm satisfied with its flexibility and customizability, there are some minor features lacking, but I don't feel a need for changes since it works as designed. The most crucial aspect is that I can set up my address book with the complex organizational structure needed for the accounts connecting to AWS. The lower-level functionalities suit me well enough. Other services often have customizable views of email representations with senders, subjects, and even snippets of content. While my external application on mobile can show customizable lines with my email list, Amazon WorkMail does not offer that feature. I don't really need it, but it would be a nice addition for power users.
Manav Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
A good software for email marketing that integrates well with other third-party software, but its UI should be improved
I have found two or three issues with Zoho Campaigns. If we add any email content, Zoho Campaigns takes a lot of time to review by the back end. Two years back, a client set up Zoom Campaigns, and the lead was not entered into the campaign. The flow and everything else was fine, but entering the journey or the campaign took time. My company lost a customer because it took two weeks to review the emails we entered into that content. Zoho Campaigns has to improve its UI because sometimes it won't load the campaigns, and the software is a little lagging. So that's why people have started moving to Zoho marketing automation instead of Zoho Campaigns. Zoho Campaigns should include immediate sync for the deals model because it's still not there. Whenever a lead is entered, it is immediately synced, but there is no immediate sync for the deals.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We have cut our costs in half."
"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."
"Despite being an end-user service on AWS, the backend is complex enough to enable many useful features, I invested time in configuring it, and it worked flawlessly for six years."
"The most valuable thing is that emails sent through SES have a delivery rate of greater than ninety percent."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the Amazon WorkMail for me is the SMC server. It makes my work much easier, especially since I often work with Spring Boot. There are many built-in APIs in Spring Boot that help with messaging. What I appreciate about it is that it simplifies the process. I don't need to write much code; I define the credentials in my properties or environment variables. The Java Message API, an internal API from Spring Boot, does most of the work. I set up the properties and connected them to the SMC server, and I can send emails."
"We use the tool for transactional emails and marketing."
"Amazon WorkMail integrates with Route 53 and other AWS services, providing a seamless experience when using AWS infrastructure."
"It’s a very easy product to use, you do not need to be tech savvy or a whizz at email marketing."
"Zoho Campaigns is a good software for email marketing."
"Putting the campaigns together on Zoho is reasonably straightforward. They have a little campaign builder tool that works very well as long as you don't want the campaign to be too sophisticated."
"It's a very simple solution for email."
"We can merge Zoho Campaigns with Zoho CRM and other applications. I think automation is the best feature of the product because it reduces manual inputs. It will work automatically and generate reports."
"It is a very reliable and stable tool."
"The out-of-the-box integration with all the other Zoho applications is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The solution is very inexpensive and very reasonably priced."
 

Cons

"It would be ideal to have detailed data and reporting on email opens, clicks, bounces, and other metrics, as well as integration with other business intelligence tools."
"The product should improve technical support."
"There is room for improvement in the scalability."
"WorkMail is not available in all the regions."
"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."
"I would like to see detailed reports on email success and failure rates."
"It would be nice if they had a what you say is what you get editor to build newsletters like MailChimp has."
"The support team takes a while to respond to our request."
"My usage is limited to the basic features."
"When we use Zoho Campaigns, our emails often get routed to the spam folder instead of the inbox. For example, people who use Gmail to receive our newsletter will often miss it because it was sent to their spam folder. Many of our clients aren't seeing our work. We compared it to another solution, and the open rate was much higher because the emails went directly to the inbox."
"Zoho Campaigns has to improve its UI because sometimes it won't load the campaigns, and the software is a little lagging."
"Its deliverability could be improved."
"It takes a lot of work to get it set up the way you want. It's not an intuitive product. It takes coding work to get the sales process to work. That setup process could be simplified significantly."
"The emails were going to spam a lot despite us making various changes, and it appeared to be more because it was being sent from Zoho than anything else."
"They could get better at dealing with spam. They need to improve their anti-spam capabilities."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's very cheap. The cheapest among all the services available."
"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."
"The solution should improve its price."
"WorkMail does require a license, it is, per user."
"There are additional charges, like whenever I add additional users, I need to pay extra."
"The solution's pricing is reasonable."
"Zoho Campaigns is not that expensive as compared to other solutions like MailChimp."
"Zoho Campaigns is cheaper compared to other products."
"The solution's price is reasonable."
"The tool is priced less compared to other applications."
"Since the product is part of a bundle, it is definitely very cost-efficient."
"We have an enterprise license for this because we use Zoho for lots of things. We have HR and a bunch of other things. We probably don't pay individually for marketing or sales, and it's all in the overall license that we have."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
10%
University
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Marketing Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon WorkMail?
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What advice do you have for others considering Amazon WorkMail?
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What is your primary use case for Amazon SES?
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Sample Customers

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