r/aws is a subreddit with 385k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses aws, cloud, iam, tools, and monitoring, and they frequently recommend/review database solution, newsletters, and study resources.
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"
18 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."
7 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."
262 posts
#2
Cloud
: "What are the biggest mistakes you’ve seen during Cloud migration to AWS?"
75 posts
#3
Iam
: "AWS Iam Higher Max Quotas"
31 posts
#4
Tools
: "AWS Documentation and Markdown"
30 posts
#5
Monitoring
: "AWS Documentation and Markdown"
29 posts
#6
Struggling
: "CDK now can revert drifts"
23 posts
#7
Lambda
: "Running mostly Lambda and I cannot find security scanning that fits how serverless works"
21 posts
#8
Security
: "Running mostly Lambda and I cannot find Security scanning that fits how serverless works"
15 posts
#9
Ai
: "GenAi development on AWS Bedrock"
15 posts
#10
Hard Time
14 posts
Products Discussed in r/aws
Database Solution
14 reviews
#1
DynamoDB
4.0★ from 3 reviews
#2
Amazon S3
4.5★ from 2 reviews
#3
Amazon
4.5★ from 2 reviews
Newsletters
9 reviews
#1
AWS
4.5★ from 2 reviews
#2
AWS Security Digest
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
Ready Set Cloud
4.0★ from 1 review
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
Flair Used in r/aws
#1
discussion
: "Celebrating 10 Years of Feature Request Limbo"
70 posts
#2
technical question
: "Price increase for API Gateway starting 1st of May?"
25 posts
#3
technical resource
: "Open-sourced an S3 gateway that transparently compresses your bucket — 50-80% storage savings with zero app changes"
15 posts
#4
general aws
: "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"
14 posts
#5
security
: "I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty."
12 posts
#6
article
: "AWS warns of EC2 ‘impairment’ as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region"
12 posts
#7
training/certification
: "What is the best way to learn AWS for DevOps?"
6 posts
#8
ai/ml
: "GA: Introducing the Claude Platform on AWS"
5 posts
#9
database
: "Announcing durability for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey"
4 posts
#10
billing
: "Cheaper to move data cross-AZ via ElastiCache than direct?"
4 posts
Member Growth in r/aws
Yearly
+45k members(13.2%)
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Last updated: June 12, 2026