What does bring-your-own sending provider mean?
It means the platform holds no sending infrastructure of its own. You connect a SendGrid API key or Amazon SES credentials, and every message leaves through your account, on your IP reputation, billed by your provider at their rate. AeroCampaign verifies scopes, send quota, and SES sandbox status on connect, then provisions the event pipeline automatically.
- Messages send through credentials you own, not shared platform infrastructure.
- Your domain and IP reputation are not pooled with other tenants.
- Delivery is billed by your provider — about $0.10 per 1,000 emails on Amazon SES.
- Credentials are sealed with AES-256-GCM; SES also supports IAM role assumption instead of stored keys.
- SES sandbox status is detected on connect and broadcasts are blocked until production access is granted.
- If you leave the platform, the provider account and warmed IPs stay with you.
On a conventional platform your inbox placement depends partly on the behaviour of every other tenant sharing that IP range. A bring-your-own-provider model isolates that: good sending earns you reputation you keep, and bad sending elsewhere cannot damage you.
The cost of that control is setup. SendGrid is a single API key. SES requires an IAM user and, initially, a production-access request — the platform detects the sandbox and links the request rather than letting sends fail silently.