The ses pricing does not match our pricing unfortunately. We do give instructions on how to use SimpleLogin with SES in our doc at https://github.com/simple-login/app/blob/master/docs/ses.md though.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. This sounds like someone who did not know how to use AWS and trying to treat an EC2 virt like an email server circa 1998. Can someone explain why anyone would want to do a setup like described in the article?

Another feature of SimpleLogin is self-hosting and we don’t want to be dependent on a specific cloud.

The database does not have high i/o need and we don’t store much data so a self managing a database is doable.

Absolutely! We also feared that it’s going to be hard to scale without all the aws features like rds, load balancer, s3, etc but we discovered better & easier to use tools for each need since we left Aws.

We have studied that option but the price exceeds an early, bootstrapped startup budget unfortunately.