> Vaartix sends your email through Amazon SES in Mumbai. What Vaartix adds on top, and when using Amazon SES directly makes more sense.

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# Vaartix and Amazon SES

Last checked: November 2026

**Vaartix sends your email through Amazon SES**, Amazon's email sending service, in the Mumbai region (ap-south-1). Your emails, events and logs are stored in India ([how we send](https://vaartix.com/deliverability)). Vaartix doesn't replace SES: it's the API, dashboard and support on top of it, so you don't have to build them yourself.

## What Vaartix adds on top of Amazon SES

-   **A dashboard for your whole team**: emails, logs, domains, API keys and team members, without AWS console access.
-   **Domain setup and verification**: the DKIM and return-path records to add, and a check that tells you when they're in place ([the records](https://vaartix.com/docs/domains/verify/)).
-   **Logs and delivery events** for every email, and signed [webhooks](https://vaartix.com/docs/webhooks/setup/) to your URL. No SNS topics, SQS queues or EventBridge rules to set up.
-   **Open and click tracking**, if you turn it on, with a `machine` flag for opens and clicks from image proxies and link scanners ([details](https://vaartix.com/docs/webhooks/setup/#opens-and-clicks)).
-   **Suppression**: bounced and complaining addresses are suppressed automatically, and teams are paused before they hurt the account's reputation.
-   **SDKs for your framework**: Node.js (with React Email and a Nodemailer transport), Python (with a Django email backend) and PHP (with a Laravel mail driver and a Symfony Mailer transport), plus one REST API and an SMTP relay.
-   **Plans priced in ₹**, with GST invoices with paid plans once we're GST-registered ([pricing](https://vaartix.com/pricing)).
-   **Support** by email from the people who build Vaartix, Monday to Saturday, 10:00–19:00 IST.

## Side by side

|  | With Vaartix | Using Amazon SES directly |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | Free during the private beta (invite-only). Free: ₹0 for 5,000 emails a month (up to 200 a day). Starter: ₹899/month + GST for 50,000 emails, then ₹50 per 1,000 + GST. Growth: ₹2,499/month + GST for 1,50,000 emails, then ₹40 per 1,000 + GST. Enterprise: custom. Paid plans open after the beta. We'll email you at least 30 days before any price applies. GST is charged once we're GST-registered. See the [pricing page](https://vaartix.com/pricing). | À la carte: $0.10 per 1,000 emails, plus $0.12 per GB of attachments. Or a plan: Essentials $0.16 per 1,000 (no monthly fee), Pro $0.22 per 1,000 plus $105 a month, Enterprise $0.23 per 1,000 plus $500 a month (rates for the first 10M emails a month). New AWS customers get up to $200 in Free Tier credits |
| Billing in India | Paid plans are priced and billed in ₹ by NAP Designs (India), with GST invoices with paid plans once we're GST-registered. Payment methods are announced when paid plans open after the beta | AWS India bills in rupees, converted from prices published in US dollars, and issues GST invoices |
| Where your data is stored | India | The region you choose. SES is available in Mumbai (ap-south-1) and Hyderabad (ap-south-2), among others |
| Getting started | Request an invite, verify your domain and send. Daily limits start low and grow with a clean history | New accounts start in the SES sandbox: you can only send to verified addresses, at most 200 messages in 24 hours, until AWS approves production access |
| Integration | Node.js (with React Email and a Nodemailer transport), Python (with a Django email backend) and PHP (with a Laravel mail driver and a Symfony Mailer transport); one REST API and SMTP | The AWS SDKs and CLI, the SES API with AWS request signing, and SMTP |
| SMTP | `smtp.vaartix.com`, ports 465 (SSL/TLS) and 587 (STARTTLS) | Per-region endpoints such as `email-smtp.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com`, ports 25, 587 and 2587 (STARTTLS) or 465 and 2465 (TLS) |
| Delivery events | Signed webhooks to your URL | Event publishing to Amazon SNS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, Data Firehose or Pinpoint, for you to process |
| Bounces and complaints | Suppressed automatically, and teams are paused before they hurt the account's reputation | An account-level suppression list; keeping your bounce and complaint rates low is up to you |
| Dashboard for your team | Emails, logs, domains, API keys and team members | The AWS console |
| Inbound email and dedicated IPs | No inbound email. Dedicated IPs: a paid add-on with Growth ([contact us](mailto:support@vaartix.com?subject=Dedicated%20IP)) | Yes: Mail Manager for receiving, and dedicated IPs ($24.95 per IP a month, or managed) |
| Support | Email, answered by the people who build Vaartix, Monday to Saturday, 10:00–19:00 IST | AWS Support plans |

## When using Amazon SES directly makes sense

-   **Very high volume.** At $0.10 per 1,000 emails, SES on its own costs less than a service built on top of it.
-   **You have your own team to run it**: you already run on AWS and have the people to build and run the sending, event handling and monitoring yourselves.
-   **You need what only SES offers**: Virtual Deliverability Manager, inbound email with Mail Manager, and every AWS region.
-   **No invitation and no low starting limit** once AWS grants production access.

## If you already send with Amazon SES

1.  **Add your domain in Vaartix** ([the records](https://vaartix.com/docs/domains/verify/)). Vaartix publishes its own DKIM and bounce records, so your SES identity keeps working while you switch.
2.  **Swap the SES call** for the Vaartix SDK or `POST /emails` ([quick start](https://vaartix.com/docs/quickstart/)), or point SMTP at `smtp.vaartix.com` with username `vaartix` and an API key.
3.  **Replace your SNS or EventBridge handling** with a Vaartix webhook ([webhooks](https://vaartix.com/docs/webhooks/setup/)).
4.  **Move traffic gradually**: daily limits on a new account start low and grow with a clean history.

**Vaartix is in private beta, and invite-only.** Every feature is free during the beta. Tell us what you send and we'll invite you as places open up.

[Request early access](https://vaartix.com/#early-access)

## Sources

Last checked: November 2026. AWS prices and features change; check AWS's own pages before you decide. Spotted something out of date? Tell us at [hello@vaartix.com](mailto:hello@vaartix.com) and we'll fix it.

-   [Amazon SES pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/)
-   [Amazon SES: Request production access (the sandbox)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/request-production-access.html)
-   [Amazon SES endpoints and regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ses.html)
-   [Amazon SES: Connecting to an SMTP endpoint](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/smtp-connect.html)
-   [AWS: Tax help for India (AWS India, GST)](https://aws.amazon.com/tax-help/india/)
-   [AWS India FAQ (billing in INR)](https://aws.amazon.com/legal/awsin/)