r/aws

Updated 2026-10-24

r/aws is a Technology & IT community on Reddit with 389,193 members, ranking #73 of 2,569 in Technology & IT. 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.

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How big is r/aws?

Created in 2008, r/aws has had over a decade to grow and is a large community by Reddit standards. Within Technology & IT it ranks #73 of 2,569 communities we track — the top 2.8% of the category by subscriber count. That puts it about 565× the median Technology & IT subreddit, which has 689 members. It is a work-safe community with no 18+ flag on Reddit.

For scale, the largest Technology & IT community we track is r/Futurology with 21,683,866 members — roughly 56 times the size of r/aws. Reddit itself launched in 2005, so a subreddit created in 2008 sits in the early wave of community building on the platform. Subscriber counts indicate reach, not activity — a large community can be quiet, and a smaller one busy. Open r/aws on Reddit to see how often people actually post before deciding whether it is worth joining.

Members389,193
CategoryTechnology & IT
Rank in category#73 of 2,569
Created2008
Category median size689 members
Content ratingWork-safe (SFW)

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