Email sending services
Amazon SES privacy rating
Amazon Simple Email Service, an email API and SMTP relay on AWS for sending and receiving email, billed per message.
Summary
Amazon SES scores 54 out of 100 (grade D) on the email sending services criteria. It meets 7 of 12 criteria: transparency report, tells users about requests, TLS configuration, security headers, open and click tracking off by default, encrypted delivery can be enforced and EU data location. It partly meets no ads or data sales and independent audit. It does not meet open source and no trackers or telemetry. Still needing evidence: message content deleted after delivery. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A+ and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade A.
Score 54 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
The website loads Amplitude, DoubleClick and Marketo scripts.
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Partial
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Customer content is not used for marketing or advertising, but the website loads DoubleClick advertising scripts to promote AWS.
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Partial
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
A SOC 3 summary report is public. The full SOC 2 report is only available to customers through AWS Artifact.
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Yes
Transparency report Weight 2 of 3
Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
Amazon regularly publishes a report on the types and volume of information requests it receives.
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Yes
Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
AWS gives customers notice of demands for their content unless legally prohibited.
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Unknown
Message content deleted after delivery Weight 3 of 3
Is the content of sent mail deleted once it has been delivered?
Needs evidence. Add it
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Yes
Open and click tracking off by default Weight 2 of 3
Are open tracking pixels and click tracking links off unless the sender turns them on?
Open and click tracking only apply to mail sent with a configuration set that publishes those events.
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Yes
Encrypted delivery can be enforced Weight 2 of 3
Can outbound mail be kept from being delivered without TLS?
TLS is opportunistic by default. A configuration set with the TLS policy set to Require drops mail that cannot be sent over TLS.
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Yes
EU data location Weight 1 of 3
Can message content and delivery logs be processed and stored only in the European Union?
Available in several EU regions, including Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris, Milan and Stockholm.
Automated tests
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Yes
TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3
Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A+
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Yes
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A (95/100+)
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Not tested yet
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Not tested yet.