High Volume, Inbound Email Processing

Client Industry:

Media

Problem:

A media company was building a web app that needed to process thousands of inbound emails daily. Each email had to be parsed, attachments extracted and stored, and metadata made instantly accessible to the frontend of the app.

Their original plan? Host and manage their own mail server.

That meant complex setup, high overhead, and limited scalability—not ideal for a lean team.

Our Solution:

We proposed a serverless, cloud-native architecture built entirely on AWS to eliminate the headaches of infrastructure:

  • Amazon SES seamlessly received and routed inbound emails.
  • AWS Lambda parsed the message body and handled the logic to extract and process attachments.
  • Amazon S3 stored attachments affordably and durably.
  • Amazon DynamoDB served as a lightning-fast, scalable datastore for frontend access.

The result? A powerful backend with zero server maintenance.

Impact:

The system now processes tens of thousands of emails every day with no slowdowns—and all for under $30/month.
No servers. No bottlenecks. Just results.