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Do AI agents pick Amazon SES?

How often agents choose Amazon SES when a developer needs transactional email — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Amazon SES

#4 of 5 transactional email
0%Pick Rate
95% CI 0%2%

When developers ask an AI agent for transactional email, Amazon SES is picked 0% of the time — ranking #4 of 5 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 0% Named, not picked 51% Never surfaced 49%

Beaten by Postmark (14%), Resend (12%), SendGrid (9%).

Awareness

6.0M package downloads / week

Known but not preferred — widely used, but agents pick competitors. That's a preference problem, not awareness.

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 9 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

22.8M installs / month ▲ 12% MoM

Growing despite a low Pick Rate — winning the agent pick is upside, not a dependency.

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About Amazon SES

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cloud-based email sending service from AWS.

Amazon SES lets developers send transactional, marketing, and notification emails from their applications. It handles the underlying infrastructure for email delivery and is aimed at developers and businesses that need programmatic email sending at scale.

Where to start

Developers interact with SES through its API, using the AWS SDK for JavaScript to send requests from Node.js, browser, or React Native environments. Start by setting up AWS credentials, choosing a region, and verifying a sender identity before sending your first email.

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