Transactional Email APIs · reliability comparison
Amazon SES vs Mailtrap Email Sending: which is more reliable? (2026)
Amazon SES and Mailtrap Email Sending are effectively tied on reliability (100.0 vs 98.2). Over the last 90 days Amazon SES reported 0 incidents and Mailtrap Email Sending reported 2, with effective uptime of 100% and 99.99% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
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| Metric | Amazon SES | Mailtrap Email Sending |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 100.0 | 98.2 |
| Rank (transactional email APIs) | — | #2 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 100% | 99.99% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 0 | 2 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | — | 6m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Amazon SES and Mailtrap Email Sending differ
- Amazon SES reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Mailtrap Email Sending reported 2.
90-day uptime
Amazon SES
Mailtrap Email Sending
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Amazon SES incidents
No incidents reported by Amazon SES in the last 90 days.
Recent Mailtrap Email Sending incidents
- MaintenanceOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 38m
- Degraded performanceSep 16, 2026 · resolved in 6m
- Degraded performanceSep 16, 2026 · resolved in 6m
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- Mailjet · #1 · 100% uptime
- Loops · #3 · 99.98% uptime
- Twilio SendGrid · #4 · 99.98% uptime
- Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) · #5 · 99.93% uptime
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