Moderate to move
SES on Hetzner (US): what it becomes and what it costs.
On Hetzner (US), SES becomes Postmark / Mailgun / Resend, or self-hosted Postal with clean IPs. Most hosts block port 25 by default, so transactional mail moves to a provider.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
250% of today
SES is $0.10 per 1k mails; Resend $0.40, Mailgun $0.70, Postmark $1.25 per 1k. Volume discounts bring the mid case to about 2.5×.
Engineer time
none added
Priced from usage; it runs on the servers already counted.
Your own SES line, from your export
Drop one month of your AWS cost export and the report prices every service, SES included, on Hetzner (US) list prices of 18 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.