r/aws is a subreddit with 389k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and pain & anger, 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
Solution Requests
: "AWS EC2 instance launched by attacker using my access key. How can I prevent this from happening again?"
9 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "WAF pricing is basically a tax on having a public API at this point"
9 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "Lost root MFA + old phone number, still have email and partial AWS access. What are my options?"
3 posts
#4
Opportunities
: "Anyone moved away from a monolith to modern cloud architecture without an 18 month migration?"
1 post
#5
Self-Promotion
: "I posted here few months ago about my side project. Here’s what happened since."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/aws
#1
Aws
: "I built a proxy that signs outbound requests from Aws workloads with short-lived JWTs from Aws STS"
120 posts
#2
Cloud
: "How do you centralize cross account logs when you've been running multi account for years?"
29 posts
#3
Iam
24 posts
#4
Tools
24 posts
#5
Monitoring
23 posts
#6
Struggling
19 posts
#7
Hard Time
14 posts
#8
Lambda
9 posts
#9
S3
: "A really cool, non-AI, announcement out of NY Summit: S3 Annotations"
6 posts
#10
Deployment
5 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
: "Are you finding AWS quality of docs going down?"
57 posts
#2
technical question
: "Aurora MySQL RDS-initiated failover : How can I identify the actual root cause?"
21 posts
#3
general aws
: "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"
17 posts
#4
article
: "Performance evaluation of the new m9g instance family against previous Graviton generations (m8g, m7g, and m6g)"
15 posts
#5
technical resource
: "Open-sourced an S3 gateway that transparently compresses your bucket — 50-80% storage savings with zero app changes"
12 posts
#6
security
: "Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication"
9 posts
#7
billing
: "Locked out of account, charged monthly...forever?"
7 posts
#8
training/certification
: "AIF 50% + CLF Free - Aws Official Coupon \\\ +Free mock exams on my AWS study platform"
6 posts
#9
serverless
: "Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs"
4 posts
#10
storage
: "A really cool, non-AI, announcement out of NY Summit: S3 Annotations"
4 posts
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+45k members(13.0%)
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Last updated: July 13, 2026