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MoonMail[0] is a similar product, but runs via Serverless framework on Lambda and other services on AWS (or their hosted version for $$). I really love the idea but it was a huge hassle to deploy due to many service configurations and different Serverless framework versions. It's also somewhat expensive running single tenant due to the minimum cost of running DynamoDB tables and Kinesis streams (even with near 0 usage).

0: https://moonmail.io/

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I had a lot of problems with Moonmail. Took forever to get our domain verified properly even though we were following all of the steps exactly, and in the meantime their support said that the lack of verification wouldn't be a problem, which wasn't true. Then after it was all worked out, something got reset and we had to go through the process again.

We're still on it because we don't use email a lot and it'd be a big time commitment to start over somewhere else, but if I was starting again I'd stay away.

DynamoDB's free tier is incredibly generous. Did you exceed it?

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