r/aws is a subreddit with 386k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses aws, cloud, monitoring, iam, and tools, and they frequently recommend/review study resources, etl tool, and backend framework.
News, articles and tools covering Amazon Web Services (AWS), including S3, EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudFormation, AWS-CDK, Route 53, CloudFront, Lambda, VPC, Cloudwatch, Glacier and more.
Popular Themes in r/aws
#1
Solution Requests
: "Global route53 API outage"
19 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "What is the best way to learn AWS for DevOps?"
8 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "AWS Business Support is a scam. 10 days. Zero help. We're paying to be ignored."
5 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "Cracked job interview - built AWS Serverless app"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/aws
#1
Aws
: "I bypassed Aws API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty."
268 posts
#2
Cloud
: "Anyone moved away from a monolith to modern Cloud architecture without an 18 month migration?"
59 posts
#3
Monitoring
26 posts
#4
Iam
24 posts
#5
Tools
24 posts
#6
Struggling
: "CDK now can revert drifts"
20 posts
#7
Security
: "Running mostly Lambda and I cannot find Security scanning that fits how serverless works"
18 posts
#8
Lambda
: "Running mostly Lambda and I cannot find security scanning that fits how serverless works"
18 posts
#9
Ai
: "AiF 50% + CLF Free - Aws Official Coupon \\\ +Free mock exams on my AWS study platform"
18 posts
#10
Hard Time
14 posts
Products Discussed in r/aws
Study Resources
8 reviews
#1
Stephane Maarek
4.7★ from 3 reviews
#2
Adrian Cantrill
5.0★ from 3 reviews
#3
Whizlabs
3.0★ from 1 review
Etl Tool
4 reviews
#1
Safe Software
4.5★ from 2 reviews
#2
dbt
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
Alteryx
4.0★ from 1 review
Backend Framework
2 reviews
#1
Django
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Flair Used in r/aws
#1
discussion
: "AWS things you wish somebody had told you earlier"
68 posts
#2
technical question
: "Moving crons out of our backend to AWS Lambda to fix duplicate triggers on Spot Instances. Sanity check our architecture?"
21 posts
#3
general aws
: "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"
16 posts
#4
security
: "I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty."
14 posts
#5
article
: "The radical network redesign that led AWS to forge a more resilient cloud"
13 posts
#6
technical resource
: "Open-sourced an S3 gateway that transparently compresses your bucket — 50-80% storage savings with zero app changes"
13 posts
#7
billing
: "Cheaper to move data cross-AZ via ElastiCache than direct?"
7 posts
#8
database
: "GitHub - nubo-db/dynoxide: A fast, embeddable drop-in for DynamoDB Local, backed by SQLite. Runs as a native binary, a ~5 MB Docker image, or in the browser."
6 posts
#9
training/certification
: "AIF 50% + CLF Free - Aws Official Coupon \\\ +Free mock exams on my AWS study platform"
6 posts
#10
serverless
: "Cracked job interview - built AWS Serverless app"
4 posts
Member Growth in r/aws
Yearly
+45k members(13.2%)
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Last updated: June 23, 2026