r/aws is a subreddit with 392k 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 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
: "What finops tool do you use?"
4 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Where to found resource to learn networking?"
3 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
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"
95 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
: "Demystifying AWS Lambda misbehavior’s"
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"
44 posts
#2
technical question
: "Why is it so hard for people to write least privilege policies"
9 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
article
: "What Bedrock, Strands and AgentCore each actually do, worked out by building one small agent three ways"
7 posts
#6
ai/ml
: "Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale"
5 posts
#7
database
: "DB parameter suggestion"
5 posts
#8
technical resource
: "Whats a guy got to do to get a support ticket reply?"
4 posts
#9
data analytics
: "Processing billions of tiny files in an un-partitioned S3"
2 posts
#10
serverless
: "Tip for staying under the 250mb Lambda limit"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/aws
Yearly
+44k members(12.7%)
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Last updated: August 12, 2026