I'm trying to get a Simple Email Service account running.
I'm curious if I need a support plan (let's say developer - at 49$ per month currently) in order to make my account production-ready.
These are the support plans: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/compare-plans/
Currently, the sandbox only allows sending mails from and to verified addresses, and the limits on the account are quite low.
No, no support plan is needed to get out of the sandbox - two entirely different issues.
Having or not having a support plan has nothing to do with your sending limits.
You can create an Increase Limit request without having a support plan. You should have the option to create a case in the support center and choose Service Limit Increase. Then, just explain the reason for the request that it should be available in a short time.
What you can't do without a support plan is create a case for Technical Support.
Related
my APP Is Really Depends on push Notifications, for examples iF the app has two actors, owner, and user, if the owner posts something, the user must be notified, based on their locations and Engagement in the app, which means the System first searches the nearest user and notify him, Notification is performed based on the location of the user, the user who is found in the nearest location is notified first, so What I want to ask you is, is it possible to achieve this without using firebase Cloud functions, Since firebase Cloud functions are NOT Free at this time. it asks me Billing account but the payment method is not available in my country
Apologies for my previous reply, I misunderstood the situation,
Also another solution besides one signal, you can use FCM on your own server, via FirebaseAdmin SDK. If you have a NodeJS server, a simple one, you can perform all firebase functions on it. In the end, it's not an absolute necessity to use cloud functions, it's just more convenient for a simple task or a few functions than spinning up your own server just for notifications. I would advise to go with this solution, and you will have access to cloud firestore via the admin SDK, you'll feel right at home.
Firebase cloud functions requires billing info, but you aren't charged. You have 2 MILLION free api calls per month. Then every extra 1 million calls cost less than half a dollar.
Do you know what 2 Million API invocations per month means? That's 32 THOUSAND API calls per day. If your app is generating that much traffic, trust me, you will not be worrying about these costs.
You can use OneSignal if you want, but it's more work for you, and it's outside the Firebase ecosystem.
Go with cloud functions, when you are reaching the limit of the free tier of 2Million monthly API requests, you can start looking for investors in your app.
how to create a background service in FLUTTER
with posh notification
I create an app but I went to integer a service to check the database when the app is not run
thank tou
I would recommend using Google Cloud Scheduler, which allows you to create CRON jobs which can send a request to your API, on a regular basis. The first three jobs are free.
If you also need to implement the actual function checking your database, have a look at Google Cloud Functions. Those can be written in Javascript or Typescript and call make calls to external APIs as long as you are on Blaze Plan (which includes the monthly free quotas).
The advantages are:
you get free credit when you create your account
depending on your needs you might not need more than the free monthly quota for Google Functions calls (first 2 millions invocations are free every month)
it's very easy to create a scheduled function which will picked up and run by the Cloud Scheduler
it's highly scalable and reliable so you don't have to worry about managing your own servers
I am asking for advice on possibly better solutions for the part of the project I'm working on. I'll first give some background and then my current thoughts.
Background
Our clients can use my company's products to generate potentially large data sets for use in their industry. When the data sets are generated, the clients will file a processing request to us.
We want to send the clients a summary email which contains some statistical charts as well as sampling points from the data sets so they can do some initial quality control work. If the data sets are of bad quality, they don't need to file any request.
One problem is that the charts and sampling points can be potentially too large to be sent in an email. The charts and the sampling points we want to include in the emails are pictures. Although we can use low-quality format such as JPEG to save space, we cannot control how many data sets would be included in the summary email, so the total size could still exceed the normal email size limit.
In terms of technologies, we are mainly developing in Python on Ubuntu 14.04.
Goals of the Solution
In general, we want to present a report-like thing to the clients to do some initial QA. The report may contains external links but does not need to be very interactive. In other words, a static report should be fine.
We want to reduce the steps or things that our clients must do to read the report. For example, if the report can be just an email, the user only needs to 1). log in and 2). open the email. If they use a client software, they may skip 1). and just open and begin to read.
We also want to minimize the burden of maintaining extra user accounts for both us and our clients. For example, if the solution requires us to register a new user account, this solution is, although still acceptable, not ranked very high.
Security is important because our clients don't want their reports to be read by unauthorized third parties.
We want the process automated. We want the solution to provide programming interface so that we can automate the report sending/sharing process.
Performance is NOT a critical issue. Our user base is not large. I think at most in hundreds. They also don't generate data that frequently, at most once a week. We don't need real-time response. Even a delay of a few hours is still acceptable.
My Current Thoughts of Solution
Possible solution #1: In-house web service. I can set up a server machine and develop our own web service. We put the report into our database and the clients can then query via the Internet.
Possible solution #2: Amazon Web Service. AWS is quite mature but I'm not sure if they could be expensive because so far we just wanna share a report with our remote clients which doesn't look like a big deal to use AWS.
Possible solution #3: Google Drive. I know Google Drive provides API to do uploading and sharing programmatically, but I think we need to register a dedicated Google account to use that.
Any better solutions??
You could possibly use AWS S3 and Cloudfront. Files can easily be loaded into S3 using the AWS SDK's and API. You can then use the API to generate secure links to the files that can only be opened for a specific time and optionally from a specific IP.
Files on S3 can also be automatically cleaned up after a specific time if needed using lifecycle rules.
Storage and transfer prices are fairly cheap with AWS and remember that the S3 storage cost indicated is by the month so if you only have an object loaded for a few days then you only pay for a few days.
S3: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing
Cloudfront: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/
Here's a list of the SDK's for AWS:
https://aws.amazon.com/tools/#sdk
Or you can use their command line tools for Windows batch or powershell scripting:
https://aws.amazon.com/tools/#cli
Here's some info on how the private content urls are created:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/PrivateContent.html
I will suggest to built this service using mix of your #1 and #2 options. You can do the processing and for transferring the data leverage AWS S3 which is quiet cheap.
Example: 100GB costs like approx $3.
Also AWS S3 will be beneficial as you are covered for any disaster on your local environment your data will be safe in S3.
For security you can leverage data encryption and signed URLS in AWS S3.
I am the manager of an iOS application and it uses Google Places API. Right now I am limited to 100,000 requests and during our testing, one or two users could use up to 2000 requests per day (without autocomplete). This means that only about 50 to 200 people will be able to use the app per day before I run out of quota. I know I will need to fill out the uplift request form when the app launches to get more quota but I still feel that I will need a very large quota based on these test results. Can anyone help me with this issue?
Note: I do not want to launch the app until I know I will be able to get a larger quota.
First up, put your review request in sooner rather than later so I have time to review it and make sure it complies with our Terms of Service.
Secondly, how are your users burning 2k requests per day? Would caching results help you lower your request count?
I'm facing the same problem!
Is it possible to use Places library of the Google Maps Javascript API which gives the quota on each end user instead of an API key so that the quota will grow as user grows. See here
Theoretically I think it's possible to do that since it just need a webView or javascript runtime to use the library, but didn't see anyone seems to use this approach.
I'm looking for something out of the box to programmatically send emails at a given point in the future. Something like Amazon SES, but that also takes care of the temporal aspect. If SES just had a date/time-parameter for when to send the email, the problem would be solved.
Does anyone know of some service, API, lib or open-source project that does this? The less I have to do myself, the better. Preferably it should be http-based.
I understand how to build something like this myself, that's not the issue. I would simply prefer to pay for it rather than maintain yet another custom-built service.
Had a look around http://sendible.com/ have an API for doing this using REST/HTTP.
Looking at their pricing and what they offer it maybe overkill depending on your needs....
Here are the links I found, the code example shows scheduling an email message.
http://code.google.com/p/sendible-api/wiki/CreateMessage
http://sendible.com/features/social-media-dashboard
Also...
http://mailchimp.com/ have email campaigns that can be scheduled, but have no support for single emails as far as I can tell - they use Amazon SES for sending.
I just found out that Mandrill (MailChimp's transactional e-mail service) has this feature:
http://help.mandrill.com/entries/24331201-Can-I-schedule-a-message-to-send-at-a-specific-time-
You may check huhumails.com
Disclaimer: I'm the author of the website.
HuhuMails is a scheduler program for Amazon SES. It also takes care of the rate limit and make sure you don't exceed your per-second limit. And it also accepts date and timezone parameters if you want to send your email in the future.
I was looking for an email scheduler, and I couldn't find anything on the market that's simple and according to what I need. That's why I created the service. I'm currently using it on my other production websites. Hopefully, others will find it useful as well.