Hello,

I've recently moved one of my projects to aws, everything is great, except for the cost of Workmail. Before this i was using shared web hosting, in which email hosting was free so client had many email ids, But now in workmail its $4 per user per month, which if u compare to the pervious (free) plan is a lot. Now i understand it can't be free, but still the current rate is a bit high imo. I am using many services like EC2, Route53, ECB, SES etc, but none are as expensive as workmail. Just for the last month its expense is around $40.

Can someone please guide me if i am doing something wrong and how can i bring it lower or any alternatives to the workmail? Details below

• Number of users/ids right now: 7

• Used for sending and receiving emails some are hooked in code so alerts are also sent from and to them.

Bill for August

• AWS Service Charges: $137.49

• Data Transfer: $0.00

• Elastic Compute Cloud: $16.31

• Elastic Load Balancing: $18.60

• Route 53: $1.02

• Savings Plans for AWS Compute usage: $49.79

• Simple Email Service: $0.00

• WorkMail: $39.27