SendiventvsAWSSNS+SES

Primitives vs products

AWS SES handles email delivery. AWS SNS handles SMS and push. They're powerful, reliable, and cheap at scale.

But they're primitives, not products. To build a notification system on AWS, you need to:

• Build an API layer on top of SES/SNS
• Handle template management
• Build a dashboard for your team
• Implement multi-language support
• Create analytics and logging
• Handle failures and retries
• Add Slack integration (AWS doesn't do this)

That's significant engineering work.

The AWS appeal

AWS makes sense if:

• You want everything in one cloud
• You have engineers to build the layer
• You're at massive scale where AWS pricing wins
• You need deep AWS integration

The product appeal

Sendivent makes sense if:

• You want to ship notifications, not build infrastructure
• You need your team to manage messages without engineering
• You value time over maximum control
• You want Slack and other channels AWS doesn't cover

Cost comparison

AWS is cheap per message. But the cost of building and maintaining the product layer can dwarf the per-message savings.

Sendivent's pricing is simple: based on people notified. No complex AWS cost calculation, no engineering time to budget.

The honest tradeoff

AWS gives you maximum control and potential cost savings at scale. Sendivent gives you a finished product immediately. For most teams, the product wins.

When to use AWS directly

• Massive scale (millions of notifications daily)
• Deep AWS investment already
• Team with time to build and maintain
• Specific AWS compliance requirements

When to use Sendivent

• Want to ship now, not build infrastructure
• Need non-developer team access
• Value simplicity over maximum control
• Don't want to maintain notification infrastructure