r/aws

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

Founded January 2008 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 9

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

394,205

394K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

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no sample yet

Comments per post

12.1

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

+0.8%

+3.1K members · ≈33d

Promo tolerance

high

read the sidebar rules first

Last post

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no sample yet

Distinct posters

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no sample yet

Tracking since Aug 7 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

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r/aws — frequently asked

How many members does r/aws have?

r/aws has 394,205 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 9. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/aws growing?

Over the last ≈33 days r/aws changed by +0.8% — a gain of 3.1K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

How active is r/aws?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/aws yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

When was r/aws created?

r/aws was founded in January 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Can I promote my product in r/aws?

Our read on r/aws is high promo tolerance. It has a promo-friendly culture or a dedicated thread, but that still means being useful first. Always read the sidebar rules before you post; moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.

How do I monitor r/aws for mentions?

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Can my AI agent read r/aws's stats?

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r/aws Subreddit Stats — 394K members, +0.8% in 33d