An ESP deletes your email logs after 7 days.
A deliverability issue surfaces Monday. The failed sends happened Thursday.
Logs are gone. You're debugging blind.
SES keeps logs in your CloudWatch for 90 days. In your account. Not ours.
100K emails/month:
Postmark β $126
SendGrid β $35
Resend β $35
AWS SES β $10
Same deliverability. Same inbox placement.
3 of these charge you for their margin. 1 charges you for the infrastructure.
What are you paying right now?
Steps to send email from your app:
Option A: Pay $0.10/1K emails but spend 2 days configuring SES, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, bounce handling, and CloudWatch.
Option B: Pay $2/1K emails for someone else to do the same thing on their infrastructure.
There should be an Option C.