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> Today, we're excited to announce just that: the private beta of Email Sending, a new capability that allows you to send transactional emails directly from Cloudflare Workers.

So many comments here assumed from the title they're offering a hosted email service, they aren't, they are announcing their own Sendgrid.



More like Amazon SES than Sendgrid.


Those two are pretty equivalent in my mind, though I've only done trivial things with them. What's the diff?


sendgrid has an email marketing platform with list and audience management tools, in addition to just the ability to send emails. think mailchimp.


That's exactly why I'm excited. I could really use this.


Please blog about it if you do!


I can, but wouldn't that be a boring post? "I set my SMTP servers to this other thing and they still work"? :P

Or do you mean if I get access to the beta? I probably won't :(


I have yet to read a boring stavros post, imgz.org for example. I encourage you to keep writing and keep building. Moar sassy knowledge sharing pls.


Haha, thanks, I'll write about something soon then!


What’s the point of it for Cloudflare? It feels like they’re randomly offering different products. Are they trying to be a full cloud platform like everyone else? If not, then what?


> Are they trying to be a full cloud platform like everyone else?

Yes.


Cloudflare workers are incredibly powerful and only getting better. This is just another step in the right direction for them.


Relying on a single, US based company for this need is a bit dangerous.




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