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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.

The community at a glance

r/aws is a Subreddit for DevOps Engineers and Programmers with roughly 388K members. It has been around since 2008. It uses a forum format for communication. It is the 3rd largest community in the DevOps topic page.

Roughly 45K members have joined in the past year. Popular discussion topics include Aws, Cloud, and Iam. Common discussion themes are Solution Requests and Pain & Anger. Product recommendations often mention aws vpc networking and s3 storage class.

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Established 2008
388K Members

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Subreddit Analysis

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Yearly: +45K members
Growth: +13.0% / year

Member growth over time

All time (yearly)

  • 2013: 923 members
  • 2014: 2K members
  • 2015: 4K members
  • 2016: 7K members
  • 2017: 12K members
  • 2018: 28K members
  • 2019: 49K members
  • 2020: 49K members
  • 2023: 112K members
  • 2024: 55K members
  • 2025: 48K members
  • 2026: 21K members

Past year (monthly)

  • Aug: 4K members
  • Sep: 3K members
  • Oct: 5K members
  • Nov: 4K members
  • Dec: 4K members
  • Jan: 4K members
  • Feb: 3K members
  • Mar: 3K members
  • Apr: 3K members
  • May: 3K members
  • Jun: 3K members
  • Jul: 1K members

Themes

  • Solution Requests
    9 posts in the past month
    1. AWS EC2 instance launched by attacker using my access key. How can I prevent this from happening again?
    2. With Localstack community edition being dead, what do you all use for local testing?
    3. What are you using for backups to S3?
    #1
    Solution Requests
    AWS EC2 instance launched by attacker using my access key. How can I prevent this from happening again? · With Localstack community edition being dead, what do you all use for local testing? · What are you using for backups to S3?
    9
  • Pain & Anger
    9 posts in the past month
    1. WAF pricing is basically a tax on having a public API at this point
    2. AWS bedrock roadblocks are infuriating
    3. Disappointing experience with AWS Nova Act
    #2
    Pain & Anger
    WAF pricing is basically a tax on having a public API at this point · AWS bedrock roadblocks are infuriating · Disappointing experience with AWS Nova Act
    9
  • Advice Requests
    3 posts in the past month
    1. Lost root MFA + old phone number, still have email and partial AWS access. What are my options?
    2. Is anyone attending the AWS summit in LA tomorrow? First timer, curious what to expect
    3. Quick Question about the average duration of support on a basic plan.
    #3
    Advice Requests
    Lost root MFA + old phone number, still have email and partial AWS access. What are my options? · Is anyone attending the AWS summit in LA tomorrow? First timer, curious what to expect · Quick Question about the average duration of support on a basic plan.
    3
  • Opportunities
    1 post in the past month
    1. Anyone moved away from a monolith to modern cloud architecture without an 18 month migration?
    #4
    Opportunities
    Anyone moved away from a monolith to modern cloud architecture without an 18 month migration?
    1
  • Self-Promotion
    1 post in the past month
    1. I posted here few months ago about my side project. Here’s what happened since.
    #5
    Self-Promotion
    I posted here few months ago about my side project. Here’s what happened since.
    1

Topics

  • Aws
    120 posts in the past month
    1. I built a proxy that signs outbound requests from AWS workloads with short-lived JWTs from AWS STS
    2. I built an AWS Console-style dashboard for Floci, the open-source local AWS emulator
    3. AWS Projects After Passing Solutions Architect Associate Cert
    #1
    Aws
    I built a proxy that signs outbound requests from AWS workloads with short-lived JWTs from AWS STS · I built an AWS Console-style dashboard for Floci, the open-source local AWS emulator · AWS Projects After Passing Solutions Architect Associate Cert
    120
  • Cloud
    29 posts in the past month
    1. How do you centralize cross account logs when you've been running multi account for years?
    #2
    Cloud
    How do you centralize cross account logs when you've been running multi account for years?
    29
  • Iam
    24 posts in the past month
    #3
    Iam
    24
  • Tools
    24 posts in the past month
    #4
    Tools
    24
  • Monitoring
    23 posts in the past month
    #5
    Monitoring
    23

Flair

  • discussion
    57 posts in the past month
    1. Are you finding AWS quality of docs going down?
    2. Confused About AWS Long-term Bedrock Strategy
    3. Users bounce after 2 minutes, but CDN caches the whole 5GB movie. How to stop wasting bandwidth?
    #1
    discussion
    Are you finding AWS quality of docs going down? · Confused About AWS Long-term Bedrock Strategy · Users bounce after 2 minutes, but CDN caches the whole 5GB movie. How to stop wasting bandwidth?
    57
  • technical question
    21 posts in the past month
    1. Aurora MySQL RDS-initiated failover : How can I identify the actual root cause?
    2. Is anyone else seeing weird latency spikes with DynamoDB Global Tables recently?
    3. Tool for finding dangling resources
    #2
    technical question
    Aurora MySQL RDS-initiated failover : How can I identify the actual root cause? · Is anyone else seeing weird latency spikes with DynamoDB Global Tables recently? · Tool for finding dangling resources
    21
  • general aws
    17 posts in the past month
    1. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    2. Any update on UAE datacenter?
    3. Anyone else seeing Karpenter / EC2 API rate limits (503 RequestLimitExceeded) in us-east-1?
    #3
    general aws
    AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models · Any update on UAE datacenter? · Anyone else seeing Karpenter / EC2 API rate limits (503 RequestLimitExceeded) in us-east-1?
    17
  • article
    15 posts in the past month
    1. Performance evaluation of the new m9g instance family against previous Graviton generations (m8g, m7g, and m6g)
    2. A return to two-pizza culture
    3. AWS Blocks is a backend toolkit for building full-stack applications on AWS.
    #4
    article
    Performance evaluation of the new m9g instance family against previous Graviton generations (m8g, m7g, and m6g) · A return to two-pizza culture · AWS Blocks is a backend toolkit for building full-stack applications on AWS.
    15
  • technical resource
    12 posts in the past month
    1. Open-sourced an S3 gateway that transparently compresses your bucket — 50-80% storage savings with zero app changes
    2. All the AWS Bedrock AgentCore best practices in one Claude Code skill. So the agent doesn't scour dozens of docs or go trial-and-error
    3. Hands-On: Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing with RAG and S3 Vectors
    #5
    technical resource
    Open-sourced an S3 gateway that transparently compresses your bucket — 50-80% storage savings with zero app changes · All the AWS Bedrock AgentCore best practices in one Claude Code skill. So the agent doesn't scour dozens of docs or go trial-and-error · Hands-On: Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing with RAG and S3 Vectors
    12

Product recommendations

  • aws vpc networking
    2 posts in the past month
    1. AWS VPC Networking Best Practices with Terraform
    2. AWS VPC Networking Best Practices with Terraform
    #1
    aws vpc networking
    AWS VPC Networking Best Practices with Terraform · AWS VPC Networking Best Practices with Terraform
    2
  • s3 storage class
    2 posts in the past month
    1. Update: Best S3 storage class for many small files
    2. Update: Best S3 storage class for many small files
    #2
    s3 storage class
    Update: Best S3 storage class for many small files · Update: Best S3 storage class for many small files
    2
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Frequently asked questions

Who is r/aws for?
Best for DevOps Engineers and Programmers enthusiasts looking for a Reddit-based community with forum discussion.
Is r/aws free to join?
This listing is not marked as paid-only. Access rules and any fees are decided by the community.
How many members does r/aws have?
Roughly 388K members, based on figures reported by the community or its host. Member counts are approximate and change over time.
What platform is r/aws on?
r/aws runs on Reddit. Reddit communities (or "subreddits") are forum-based groups on the popular social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website Reddit. Reddit is commonly known as "the front page of the internet". Users submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down and discussed by other members. From investing Reddit communities, to professional ones, to ones just for laughs, you're likely to find a community for you on Reddit.
What topics does r/aws cover?
On the Hive Index, r/aws is organized under DevOps Engineers, Programmers.
How do I join r/aws?
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What are the DevOps communities like?
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