r/aws

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Amazon Web Services (AWS): S3, EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, VPC and more

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.

Members

325,476

as of February 2025

Last post

today

September 28, 2026

Posts (30 days)

100+

Created

2008

January 26, 2008

Total posts

128.2K

archived

Total comments

782.3K

archived

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How many members does r/aws have?

r/aws had 325,476 members as of February 2025, the most recent archive crawl of its subscriber count.

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When was r/aws created?

r/aws was created on January 26, 2008.

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