r/aws is a subreddit with 393k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses aws, cloud, iam, tools, and monitoring, 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
Advice Requests
: "I wrote my first technical blog post on AWS serverless webhook ingestion, looking for honest technical and editorial feedback"
3 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Need help with serverless Bills shock prevention"
2 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "AWS account suspended 5 days after invoice was paid — production is down and support case remains unanswered"
2 posts
#4
Money Talk
: "My CloudFront bill is higher than expected. What usually makes the cost go up?"
2 posts
#5
Self-Promotion
: "I built a free tool that will slash your RDS and Aurora bill"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/aws
#1
Aws
: "Aws recommends Mail Manager SMTP for new SMTP credentials, bu has a hard, non-adjustable cap of 50"
99 posts
#2
Cloud
: "The Most In-Demand Cloud Skills in 2026"
27 posts
#3
Iam
24 posts
#4
Tools
24 posts
#5
Monitoring
23 posts
#6
Struggling
18 posts
#7
Hard Time
13 posts
#8
Lambda
11 posts
#9
Deployment
5 posts
#10
Security
4 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
: "The amount of untested AI code being pushed directly to cloud staging is getting wild"
41 posts
#2
technical question
: "Why is it so hard for people to write least privilege policies"
11 posts
#3
general aws
: "AWS recommends Mail Manager SMTP for new SMTP credentials, bu has a hard, non-adjustable cap of 50"
8 posts
#4
billing
: "It's always the networking costs!"
8 posts
#5
ai/ml
: "Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale"
5 posts
#6
technical resource
: "Whats a guy got to do to get a support ticket reply?"
5 posts
#7
database
: "DB parameter suggestion"
5 posts
#8
article
: "I wrote my first technical blog post on AWS serverless webhook ingestion, looking for honest technical and editorial feedback"
4 posts
#9
training/certification
: "AWS from scratch"
3 posts
#10
serverless
: "Tip for staying under the 250mb Lambda limit"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/aws
Yearly
+44k members(12.5%)
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Last updated: August 13, 2026