[mountainofdeath]

Amazon SES is supposed to be strictly transactional email. Using it for anything else isn't really the intended purpose.

[super-serial]

No it's not. Right on the homepage they say it can be used for marketing emails including newsletters: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/

If someone has different info let me know... we're migrating off Mailchimp and already have some of our newsletters on SES at work.