r/aws is a subreddit with 397k 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
: "AWS Lambda execution suspended 8 days after notifying AWS of a potential compromise on the root account. No response from support."
9 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "DigitalOcean vs AWS Lightsail vs Azure for a small financial analytics company?"
1 post
#3
Advice Requests
: "Best course for Node + React app in production env"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/aws
#1
Aws
: "Detecting CSAM before calling Aws Rekognition"
63 posts
#2
Cloud
: "The Rise of Private AI: Running Intelligence Without Sending Data Away#PrivateAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIPrivacy #DataPrivacy #AIDataSecurity #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI #EdgeAI #CyberSecurity #CloudComputing #AIInfrastructure #TechTrends #FutureOfAI #EkasCloud"
28 posts
#3
Iam
24 posts
#4
Tools
24 posts
#5
Monitoring
23 posts
#6
Ai
: "Synthetic Media Detection: The Technology Behind Trustworthy Content#SyntheticMedia #MediaDetection #Ai #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepfakeDetection #AiContent #TrustworthyAi #ContentAuthenticity #MachineLearning #CyberSecurity #DigitalTrust #Technology #AiInnovation #DigitalMedia #FutureOfAi #DataSc"
9 posts
#7
Security
: "why most AWS Security tools dump unreadable JSON instead of explaining the actual attack, walked through with iam:PassRole !!"
7 posts
#8
Lambda
6 posts
#9
Support
: "AWS Lambda execution suspended 8 days after notifying AWS of a potential compromise on the root account. No response from Support."
6 posts
#10
Billing
: "Why charge my credit card just to check Billing info"
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
: "AWS Lambda execution suspended 8 days after notifying AWS of a potential compromise on the root account. No response from support."
20 posts
#2
article
: "Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B into quashing datacenter dissent"
7 posts
#3
general aws
: "Amazon Quick"
6 posts
#4
technical question
: "Detecting CSAM before calling AWS Rekognition"
6 posts
#5
technical resource
: "Best course for Node + React app in production env"
6 posts
#6
billing
: "Account suspended due to ~$3 pending dues. Not able to login since business email is routed via Route53"
4 posts
#7
training/certification
: "Took the AWS ML Engineer Associate MLA-C02 beta (ME1-C02): topics that showed up + resources"
1 post
#8
re:Invent
: "AWS re:Invent as an All Builders Welcome grant recipient"
1 post
#9
networking
: "Is there really no way to filter/summarize/aggregate outbound routes on VPNs?"
1 post
Member Growth in r/aws
Yearly
+43k members(12.1%)
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Last updated: October 5, 2026