r/aws is a subreddit with 398k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger 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
Pain & Anger
: "How are you keeping Bedrock costs from turning into a shared mystery bill?"
4 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "How to detect and clean up orphaned cloud resources automatically?"
3 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "2025 BCA Graduate Starting in Technical Support at ChargePoint — Looking for Career Advice on Networking and Cloud"
2 posts
#4
Money Talk
: "Love those AWS bills"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/aws
#1
Aws
: "On October 24, Aws will test its European Sovereign Cloud without relying on its global network"
48 posts
#2
Cloud
25 posts
#3
Iam
24 posts
#4
Tools
24 posts
#5
Monitoring
23 posts
#6
Lambda
: "Freedoom on AWS Lambda Web Functions"
8 posts
#7
Budget
3 posts
#8
Kubernetes
: "Small teams on AWS: when has outside help on Terraform, Kubernetes or CI/CD actually been worth it?"
3 posts
#9
Security
2 posts
#10
Ec2
2 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
: "Network engineer to AWS architect"
17 posts
#2
general aws
: "On October 24, AWS will test its European Sovereign Cloud without relying on its global network"
5 posts
#3
billing
: "Love those AWS bills"
5 posts
#4
ai/ml
: "AWS ran 94,000 trials to measure the cost of harness choice"
4 posts
#5
technical resource
: "Your Fargate Autoscaler Doesn't Understand Your JVM (by Default): Lessons Learned the Hard Way"
4 posts
#6
technical question
: "How to detect and clean up orphaned cloud resources automatically?"
3 posts
#7
article
: "Freedoom on AWS Lambda Web Functions"
2 posts
#8
database
: "Performance Triage in Aurora"
1 post
#9
networking
: "2025 BCA Graduate Starting in Technical Support at ChargePoint — Looking for Career Advice on Networking and Cloud"
1 post
#10
data analytics
: "The Breakdown: Databricks"
1 post
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Yearly
+42k members(11.7%)
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Last updated: October 18, 2026