I'm aware of Postmark and its stellar deliverability, but having to pay $10/mo when I'd only send something like 3000 emails seems a bit pricey. Amazon SES seems to have a reputation for sending lots

How are you planning to deal with latency? Also Lightsail RDS and Dynamodb have quite the competitive pricing.

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* AWS Lightsail (their 1GB instance is now cheaper than DO)

Basically this. There is tons of large blocks come free from old corps. Amazon has bought most/all of it.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs.html, inevitably when you want to use said NAT VPS for "various purposes".

Our BGP mix of NTT, Zayo, Telia, Hurricane Electric and direct peering over the Seattle Internet Exchange with Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM Cloud, Netflix, Akamai, Charter, T-Mobile, Telus, OVH, Clo

Thanks for suggestion, but i do not like whole Amazon

Port 25 is major requirement - so will be email spam / marketing, why not use Amazon SES?

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Over the last ten years, I've received over $400 in Amazon gift cards from Microsoft (Microsoft Rewards - you get points for searching with Bing). Search results are about as good as google's.

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On their site in April they listed their partners as Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, Kingsoft, and Amazon. That info seems to have disappeared.

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