{"slug": "amazon-web-services", "name": "Amazon Web Services", "category": "infra", "category_name": "Infrastructure and DevOps", "description": "Amazon's cloud computing platform offering compute, storage, databases and many managed services.", "recommenders": 29, "commenters": 277, "warners": 77, "score": 0.424, "rising": -1.53, "first": "2025-11-02", "latest": "2026-10-31", "why": "HN commenters reach for it as a trusted default that works fairly well, and value its help with compliance, such as GDPR and the Nitro guarantee that AWS staff cannot access customer data.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 29, "neutral": 177, "compare": 16, "warn": 88}, "spark": [7, 1, 1, 3, 5, 3, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 3], "listed": true, "loved": ["Trusted default", "Compliance and privacy"], "caveat": "Outages", "short_quote": "I've been running on AWS for the past eight years.  It costs more, but it's been extraordinarily reliable.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "aws.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://aws.amazon.com/", "pricing": "paid", "aliases": ["AWS", "Amazon Web Services"], "verdict": [{"text": "HN commenters reach for it as a trusted default that works fairly well,", "cites": [{"id": 797640963, "item_id": 49852560, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852560", "by": "tolidano", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It runs on AWS and works fairly well.", "excerpt": "Hi, I'm Shawn. I made https://yamtam.nyc. Here is the blurb stolen directly from the about page: yamtam brings the entire NYC-area mass transit network together on a single, fast, offline-capable map \u2014 subways, LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit rail and buses, PATH, AirTrain JFK, the Roosevelt Island Tram, NYC Ferry, the Staten Island Ferry, MTA buses and the regional suburban bus networks of the tri-state area, plus liv", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Yamtam.nyc \u2013 yet another mass-transit all-in-one map"}, {"id": 783188512, "item_id": 48949282, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949282", "by": "tete", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "We use their services cause we can trust that they know what they are doing.", "excerpt": "It's okay. They are market leaders. And we use their services cause we can trust that they know what they are doing.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION"}, {"id": 786510423, "item_id": 49156901, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156901", "by": "jow13_12", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Stack I reach for: Python, TypeScript, AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, Grafana stack, OpenTelemetry, MCP", "excerpt": "Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Yes (or hybrid) Willing to relocate: Yes https://joecardoso.dev What I do: I build agentic systems and full-stack infrastructure. Recent work: - Founding contributor at NimbleBrain: designed the agentic loop and workflow engine that guides AI agents through building and publishing MCP server integrations end-to-end - Co-created Vispyr: self-hosted observability platform on AWS with a", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"}]}, {"text": " and value its help with compliance, such as GDPR and the Nitro guarantee that AWS staff cannot access customer data.", "cites": [{"id": 801874256, "item_id": 50117141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117141", "by": "Thiebaut", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "there's also a very simple solution that is to deploy on AWS and let AWS handle the heavy workload", "excerpt": "It's a big issue for US startups that don't immediately build for GDPR compliance - however there's also a very simple solution that is to deploy on AWS and let AWS handle the heavy workload. Not every startup has the time to digest real compliance efforts that require experts - and implement the 2000 task list that's required, especially for enterprise who will look at that in big details - if you're into big headac", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting, GDPR compliance", "switched_from": "", "story": "We\u2019re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers"}, {"id": 802986512, "item_id": 50186657, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186657", "by": "schwank", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AWS personnel do not have access to Your Content on AWS Nitro System EC2 instances", "excerpt": "Or you could actually read the T&C before saying things like \"I'm sure...\" and being totally wrong. https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ 96. AWS Nitro System AWS personnel do not have access to Your Content on AWS Nitro System EC2 instances. There are no technical means or APIs available to AWS personnel to read, copy, extract, modify, or otherwise access Your Content on an AWS Nitro System EC2 instance or encrypted", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is outages, from us-east-1 failures to the long-disrupted Bahrain and UAE regions;", "cites": [{"id": 802875136, "item_id": 50179696, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179696", "by": "JohnMakin", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it was pretty well documented as a control plane failure in us-east-1", "excerpt": "https://aws.plainenglish.io/aws-outage-october-20-2025-a-case-study-in-cloud-fragility-and-global-impact-ded4ce6bc4f8 here\u2019s one third party, it was pretty well documented as a control plane failure in us-east-1", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe"}, {"id": 802639056, "item_id": 50164941, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50164941", "by": "bsuvc", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "AWS us-east-1 outages have caused global outages on multiple occasions", "excerpt": "I'm not saying it's the case here, but sometimes the cloud providers themselves have inter-zone dependencies, or even inter-region dependencies that can cause outages in other zones and regions. For example, AWS us-east-1 outages have caused global outages on multiple occasions, such as https://www.networkworld.com/article/4168878/aws-hit-by-us-east-1-outage-after-data-center-thermal-event.html", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe"}, {"id": 795663650, "item_id": 49728978, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728978", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Compare to Github, Microsoft, Salesforce, and AWS outages that are always occurring in some fashion", "excerpt": "In my entire adult lifetime (mid 40s), my ISP has never been out for five days. Compare to Github, Microsoft, Salesforce, and AWS outages that are always occurring in some fashion. Reddit is down constantly in various ways and still continues to operate as a business, public no less, so I disagree about the need to chase five nines and broadly speaking, large distributed systems that are potentially unnecessary for t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Salesforce Global Outage"}, {"id": 801534064, "item_id": 50095879, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095879", "by": "input_sh", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "me-south-01 (Bahrain) appears to be gone permanently", "excerpt": "Counter-argument: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status Both were struck over half a year ago and me-south-01 (Bahrain) appears to be gone permanently, while the data loss in me-central-01 (UAE) is limited to one of the availability zones.", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud regions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved"}, {"id": 783935712, "item_id": 48995982, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995982", "by": "peter_stokes", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "All the UAE/Bahrain services have been disrupted since March/April", "excerpt": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status All the UAE/Bahrain services have been disrupted since March/April", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud infrastructure", "switched_from": "", "story": "Iran's IRGC claims attack on Amazon's main data hub in Bahrain"}]}, {"text": " others cite unpredictable bills and a messy console.", "cites": [{"id": 783280113, "item_id": 48955007, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955007", "by": "ngsevers", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I still had no idea what anything would cost. At some point it just became clear to me that they intentionally designed it this way", "excerpt": "After 10 years of building on AWS infra I still had no idea what anything would cost. At some point it just became clear to me that they intentionally designed it this way and that complexity is the feature. I switched to digital ocean last year and really haven't had to think about infrastructure again.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud infrastructure", "switched_from": "", "story": "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION"}, {"id": 799622032, "item_id": 49976377, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976377", "by": "stuaxo", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "stay away from cloud services especially AWS because it's hard to reason about where it will come from", "excerpt": "Yeah I want the hard budget limit, I absolutely don't want a suprise mega bill and as such stay away from cloud services especially AWS because it's hard to reason about where it will come from.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"}, {"id": 799205184, "item_id": 49950324, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950324", "by": "gentlerain", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's really in top 5 messy UI i have ever seen.", "excerpt": "I have been using AWS more recently but something I can't believe is how the whole UI/UX revolution of the last 10 or so years escaped them. Starting from the login point, who asks to login to root or IAM user account in 2026? Or having to change regions from a dropdown to see resources you own in those regions? It's really in top 5 messy UI i have ever seen.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"}, {"id": 787441633, "item_id": 49215102, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215102", "by": "terhechte", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "For any horrible web administration UI:", "excerpt": "For any horrible web administration UI: - Apple Appstore Connect (gazillions of forms of metadata to release an app) - AWS - DigitalOcean - Google Play Store Whenever I dread logging in because I know the simple sounding task requires me to click through countless menus I use an agent browser. With confirmations of course. However, while the agent clicks through these (oftentimes dog slow) UIs I can do other things. ", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud administration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Trusted default", "summary": "Commenters use it as a reliable base for their apps and stacks and trust it as the market leader.", "quotes": [{"id": 797640963, "item_id": 49852560, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852560", "by": "tolidano", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It runs on AWS and works fairly well.", "excerpt": "Hi, I'm Shawn. I made https://yamtam.nyc. Here is the blurb stolen directly from the about page: yamtam brings the entire NYC-area mass transit network together on a single, fast, offline-capable map \u2014 subways, LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit rail and buses, PATH, AirTrain JFK, the Roosevelt Island Tram, NYC Ferry, the Staten Island Ferry, MTA buses and the regional suburban bus networks of the tri-state area, plus liv", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Yamtam.nyc \u2013 yet another mass-transit all-in-one map"}, {"id": 783188512, "item_id": 48949282, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949282", "by": "tete", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "We use their services cause we can trust that they know what they are doing.", "excerpt": "It's okay. They are market leaders. And we use their services cause we can trust that they know what they are doing.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION"}, {"id": 786510423, "item_id": 49156901, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156901", "by": "jow13_12", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Stack I reach for: Python, TypeScript, AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, Grafana stack, OpenTelemetry, MCP", "excerpt": "Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Yes (or hybrid) Willing to relocate: Yes https://joecardoso.dev What I do: I build agentic systems and full-stack infrastructure. Recent work: - Founding contributor at NimbleBrain: designed the agentic loop and workflow engine that guides AI agents through building and publishing MCP server integrations end-to-end - Co-created Vispyr: self-hosted observability platform on AWS with a", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"}]}, {"label": "Compliance and privacy", "summary": "Commenters say it can take on much of the GDPR compliance work and that AWS staff cannot access data on Nitro instances.", "quotes": [{"id": 801874256, "item_id": 50117141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117141", "by": "Thiebaut", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "there's also a very simple solution that is to deploy on AWS and let AWS handle the heavy workload", "excerpt": "It's a big issue for US startups that don't immediately build for GDPR compliance - however there's also a very simple solution that is to deploy on AWS and let AWS handle the heavy workload. Not every startup has the time to digest real compliance efforts that require experts - and implement the 2000 task list that's required, especially for enterprise who will look at that in big details - if you're into big headac", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting, GDPR compliance", "switched_from": "", "story": "We\u2019re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers"}, {"id": 802986512, "item_id": 50186657, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186657", "by": "schwank", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AWS personnel do not have access to Your Content on AWS Nitro System EC2 instances", "excerpt": "Or you could actually read the T&C before saying things like \"I'm sure...\" and being totally wrong. https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ 96. AWS Nitro System AWS personnel do not have access to Your Content on AWS Nitro System EC2 instances. There are no technical means or APIs available to AWS personnel to read, copy, extract, modify, or otherwise access Your Content on an AWS Nitro System EC2 instance or encrypted", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations"}]}, {"label": "Spending cap", "summary": "A commenter notes AWS is rolling out a hard cap on spending.", "quotes": [{"id": 800167968, "item_id": 50010498, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010498", "by": "luhn", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AWS is finally rolling out a feature that lets you put a hard cap on spending.", "excerpt": "AWS is finally rolling out a feature that lets you put a hard cap on spending. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/create-spend-limit.html", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud spend limits", "switched_from": "", "story": "Serverless Horrors $10,811.41"}]}, {"label": "Engineering guidance", "summary": "A commenter calls an AWS article on timeouts, retries and backoff the best explanation they have seen.", "quotes": [{"id": 790143072, "item_id": 49383942, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383942", "by": "otterley", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is probably the best and most thorough explanation I\u2019ve seen", "excerpt": "This is probably the best and most thorough explanation I\u2019ve seen: https://builder.aws.com/content/3EumjoZascWd1oZiEgL8ORlv3qE/timeouts-retries-and-backoff-with-jitter I\u2019m particularly fond of the token-bucket approach to recovery behavior.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Outages", "summary": "Commenters say outages happen often and that us-east-1 failures have caused global outages.", "quotes": [{"id": 802639056, "item_id": 50164941, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50164941", "by": "bsuvc", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "AWS us-east-1 outages have caused global outages on multiple occasions", "excerpt": "I'm not saying it's the case here, but sometimes the cloud providers themselves have inter-zone dependencies, or even inter-region dependencies that can cause outages in other zones and regions. For example, AWS us-east-1 outages have caused global outages on multiple occasions, such as https://www.networkworld.com/article/4168878/aws-hit-by-us-east-1-outage-after-data-center-thermal-event.html", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe"}, {"id": 802875136, "item_id": 50179696, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179696", "by": "JohnMakin", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it was pretty well documented as a control plane failure in us-east-1", "excerpt": "https://aws.plainenglish.io/aws-outage-october-20-2025-a-case-study-in-cloud-fragility-and-global-impact-ded4ce6bc4f8 here\u2019s one third party, it was pretty well documented as a control plane failure in us-east-1", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe"}, {"id": 795663650, "item_id": 49728978, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728978", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Compare to Github, Microsoft, Salesforce, and AWS outages that are always occurring in some fashion", "excerpt": "In my entire adult lifetime (mid 40s), my ISP has never been out for five days. Compare to Github, Microsoft, Salesforce, and AWS outages that are always occurring in some fashion. Reddit is down constantly in various ways and still continues to operate as a business, public no less, so I disagree about the need to chase five nines and broadly speaking, large distributed systems that are potentially unnecessary for t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Salesforce Global Outage"}]}, {"label": "Regional data loss", "summary": "Commenters say attacks on the Bahrain and UAE regions caused lasting disruption and data that could not be recovered without paid backups.", "quotes": [{"id": 797949552, "item_id": 49871847, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871847", "by": "elendilm", "date": "2026-09-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Recent Iranian attacks on AWS locations in Bahrain resulted in loss of data that simply could not be recovered.", "excerpt": "Recent Iranian attacks on AWS locations in Bahrain resulted in loss of data that simply could not be recovered. https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/aws-middle-east-data-loss/ Of course, if you had paid extra for the backups and redundancy, your data would survive. So to address your original point, unless you are paying extra for redundancy, it is cheaper if you use a 4TB SSD at retail price as the original commenter ", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past"}, {"id": 801534064, "item_id": 50095879, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095879", "by": "input_sh", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "me-south-01 (Bahrain) appears to be gone permanently", "excerpt": "Counter-argument: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status Both were struck over half a year ago and me-south-01 (Bahrain) appears to be gone permanently, while the data loss in me-central-01 (UAE) is limited to one of the availability zones.", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud regions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved"}, {"id": 783935712, "item_id": 48995982, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995982", "by": "peter_stokes", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "All the UAE/Bahrain services have been disrupted since March/April", "excerpt": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status All the UAE/Bahrain services have been disrupted since March/April", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud infrastructure", "switched_from": "", "story": "Iran's IRGC claims attack on Amazon's main data hub in Bahrain"}]}, {"label": "Unpredictable billing", "summary": "Commenters say costs are hard to predict and bills can jump without warning.", "quotes": [{"id": 783280113, "item_id": 48955007, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955007", "by": "ngsevers", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I still had no idea what anything would cost. At some point it just became clear to me that they intentionally designed it this way", "excerpt": "After 10 years of building on AWS infra I still had no idea what anything would cost. At some point it just became clear to me that they intentionally designed it this way and that complexity is the feature. I switched to digital ocean last year and really haven't had to think about infrastructure again.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud infrastructure", "switched_from": "", "story": "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION"}, {"id": 799622032, "item_id": 49976377, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976377", "by": "stuaxo", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "stay away from cloud services especially AWS because it's hard to reason about where it will come from", "excerpt": "Yeah I want the hard budget limit, I absolutely don't want a suprise mega bill and as such stay away from cloud services especially AWS because it's hard to reason about where it will come from.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"}, {"id": 790187568, "item_id": 49386723, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386723", "by": "GuestFAUniverse", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Just because AWS is a failure in this regard, doesn't mean there aren't alternatives with fixed prices", "excerpt": "I love the fact that devs are still complaining that invoices are able to grow from $300 to $1000+ How can anyone use a platform where this is even an issue? Just because AWS is a failure in this regard, doesn't mean there aren't alternatives with fixed prices or others with easily settable limits.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud billing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges"}]}, {"label": "Billing console errors", "summary": "A billing console incident showed some users estimated bills in the billions.", "quotes": [{"id": 783294640, "item_id": 48955915, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955915", "by": "dsifry", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Thanks for the heart attack, Amazon!", "excerpt": "Just got an alert that we would owe $12 Billion. BILLION. After getting me out of bed and a breathless 15 minutes of investigation, I found: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status#billingconsole_1784338681 which notes this is an ongoing issue on Amazon's Global Billing Console. Thanks for the heart attack, Amazon!", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud billing", "switched_from": "", "story": "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION"}, {"id": 783129888, "item_id": 48945618, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945618", "by": "Sheepzez", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Yes, I've got an estimated bill of $4bn", "excerpt": "Yes, I've got an estimated bill of $4bn. Probably related to the ongoing \"Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data\" incident? https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B"}]}, {"label": "Messy console", "summary": "Commenters find the web console confusing and slow, with awkward logins and region switching.", "quotes": [{"id": 799205184, "item_id": 49950324, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950324", "by": "gentlerain", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's really in top 5 messy UI i have ever seen.", "excerpt": "I have been using AWS more recently but something I can't believe is how the whole UI/UX revolution of the last 10 or so years escaped them. Starting from the login point, who asks to login to root or IAM user account in 2026? Or having to change regions from a dropdown to see resources you own in those regions? It's really in top 5 messy UI i have ever seen.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"}, {"id": 787441633, "item_id": 49215102, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215102", "by": "terhechte", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "For any horrible web administration UI:", "excerpt": "For any horrible web administration UI: - Apple Appstore Connect (gazillions of forms of metadata to release an app) - AWS - DigitalOcean - Google Play Store Whenever I dread logging in because I know the simple sounding task requires me to click through countless menus I use an agent browser. With confirmations of course. However, while the agent clicks through these (oftentimes dog slow) UIs I can do other things. ", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud administration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates"}, {"id": 792457729, "item_id": 49528608, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528608", "by": "kollmar28", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Do you feel scared and alone when opening the AWS console?", "excerpt": "Railway | Senior Product Eng (full-stack), Brand Designer - Web, Senior Growth Marketer, Senior Product Marketer, Account Executive, Scale| REMOTE (Worldwide) | https://railway.com/careers Do you feel scared and alone when opening the AWS console? Do you wish you could just tell Claude to manage your infra, and it would just work? Do you dream of a future where software is abundant and developers and normies alike ar", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)"}]}, {"label": "Docs and support", "summary": "Commenters call the documentation a maze, and one says most of their support tickets were never fixed.", "quotes": [{"id": 805026785, "item_id": 50314174, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314174", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-10-31", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've always referred to AWS documentation as a maze of misdirection.", "excerpt": "Skills that you need come and go. I owned a commodore 64 once and knew how to use it. All gone. I fired up an emulator a few years ago and then had a big \"now what moment\" where I realized I had no clue what to do with it. I had a vague memory of inserting tapes and issuing commands to load stuff from it. Function keys were important. And there was a manual I once had that explained it all. But no muscle memory. Noth", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud infrastructure", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them"}, {"id": 802763136, "item_id": 50172696, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172696", "by": "Karrot_Kream", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've filed my share of AWS tickets but ultimately most of them ended up not fixed by AWS", "excerpt": "> That chain of accountability is the main issue there. We still have tower of abstraction, but no one knows about their layers. Accountability is lost and with it the trust is gone. Right this is the main difference between our viewpoints. I don't work on completely open systems. A lot of my life I've worked on closed platforms, cloud runtimes, a mix of work that's been in my control and out of my control. I've file", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"}]}], "who": [{"by": "sciurus", "context": "has an existing personal AWS account", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010603", "date": "2026-10-08"}, {"by": "mbaker", "context": "full-stack engineer of 15+ years", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984816", "date": "2026-10-06"}, {"by": "coayer", "context": "An infrastructure-focused engineer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980242", "date": "2026-10-06"}, {"by": "snicky", "context": "Engineer with 15 YoE, job seeking", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967347", "date": "2026-10-05"}, {"by": "jackpepsi", "context": "Full stack product engineer, 17 years experience", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938993", "date": "2026-10-02"}, {"by": "albertodenia", "context": "Freelance senior iOS developer, 15 years experience", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935058", "date": "2026-10-02"}, {"by": "jlarks32", "context": "Head of Engineering", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934530", "date": "2026-10-02"}, {"by": "CoreBackend", "context": "Runs a small senior-only backend firm in Los Angeles", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929716", "date": "2026-10-02"}, {"by": "madanosliw", "context": "runs a small consultancy, open to contracting", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927009", "date": "2026-10-01"}, {"by": "lardissone", "context": "Senior full-stack developer, 25+ years experience", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924751", "date": "2026-10-01"}, {"by": "craigtp", "context": "Senior Software Engineer, Systems Architect", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275197", "date": "2026-08-12"}, {"by": "MehulMangave", "context": "Recent MS Computer Engineering grad (SJSU, May 2026)", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49177532", "date": "2026-08-04"}], "tags": ["for GDPR compliance", "for startups", "for hosting web apps", "for observability stacks"], "use_cases": ["cloud hosting", "cloud infrastructure", "hosting", "cloud billing", "cloud platform", "cloud compute instances"], "compared": [{"slug": "postgresql", "name": "PostgreSQL", "co": 76, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "react", "name": "React", "co": 57, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "microsoft-azure", "name": "Microsoft Azure", "co": 50, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "google-cloud-platform", "name": "Google Cloud Platform", "co": 45, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 3}, {"slug": "docker", "name": "Docker", "co": 44, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "kubernetes", "name": "Kubernetes", "co": 39, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "terraform", "name": "Terraform", "co": 39, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "node-js", "name": "Node.js", "co": 32, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357724", "title": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)", "mentions": 15}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073201", "title": "I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left", "mentions": 14}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857487", "title": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)", "mentions": 11}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922568", "title": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)", "mentions": 10}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975570", "title": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)", "mentions": 10}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747976", "title": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)", "mentions": 8}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"warn": 11, "recommend": 7, "neutral": 13, "compare": 1}, "2025-12": {"warn": 9, "neutral": 17, "recommend": 1, "compare": 2}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 9, "warn": 5, "compare": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 24, "warn": 10, "recommend": 3}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 12, "recommend": 5, "warn": 5, "compare": 3}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 12, "warn": 4, "compare": 1, "recommend": 3}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 21, "warn": 17, "compare": 3, "recommend": 2}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 18, "warn": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 16, "warn": 10, "compare": 3}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 11, "recommend": 2, "warn": 3}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 9, "warn": 4, "recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 15, "warn": 8, "recommend": 3, "compare": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 805026785, "item_id": 50314174, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314174", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-10-31", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've always referred to AWS documentation as a maze of misdirection.", "excerpt": "Skills that you need come and go. I owned a commodore 64 once and knew how to use it. All gone. I fired up an emulator a few years ago and then had a big \"now what moment\" where I realized I had no clue what to do with it. I had a vague memory of inserting tapes and issuing commands to load stuff from it. Function keys were important. And there was a manual I once had that explained it all. But no muscle memory. Noth", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud infrastructure", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them"}, {"id": 802986512, "item_id": 50186657, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186657", "by": "schwank", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AWS personnel do not have access to Your Content on AWS Nitro System EC2 instances", "excerpt": "Or you could actually read the T&C before saying things like \"I'm sure...\" and being totally wrong. https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ 96. AWS Nitro System AWS personnel do not have access to Your Content on AWS Nitro System EC2 instances. There are no technical means or APIs available to AWS personnel to read, copy, extract, modify, or otherwise access Your Content on an AWS Nitro System EC2 instance or encrypted", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations"}, {"id": 802875136, "item_id": 50179696, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179696", "by": "JohnMakin", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it was pretty well documented as a control plane failure in us-east-1", "excerpt": "https://aws.plainenglish.io/aws-outage-october-20-2025-a-case-study-in-cloud-fragility-and-global-impact-ded4ce6bc4f8 here\u2019s one third party, it was pretty well documented as a control plane failure in us-east-1", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe"}, {"id": 802782273, "item_id": 50173892, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173892", "by": "stuaxo", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Exactly. I use this stuff at work, but why would I ever risk this for my own stuff ?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: My Gemini bill shot up suddenly to 2500 USD in one day"}, {"id": 802763136, "item_id": 50172696, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172696", "by": "Karrot_Kream", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've filed my share of AWS tickets but ultimately most of them ended up not fixed by AWS", "excerpt": "> That chain of accountability is the main issue there. We still have tower of abstraction, but no one knows about their layers. Accountability is lost and with it the trust is gone. Right this is the main difference between our viewpoints. I don't work on completely open systems. A lot of my life I've worked on closed platforms, cloud runtimes, a mix of work that's been in my control and out of my control. I've file", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"}, {"id": 802639056, "item_id": 50164941, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50164941", "by": "bsuvc", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "AWS us-east-1 outages have caused global outages on multiple occasions", "excerpt": "I'm not saying it's the case here, but sometimes the cloud providers themselves have inter-zone dependencies, or even inter-region dependencies that can cause outages in other zones and regions. For example, AWS us-east-1 outages have caused global outages on multiple occasions, such as https://www.networkworld.com/article/4168878/aws-hit-by-us-east-1-outage-after-data-center-thermal-event.html", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe"}, {"id": 801874256, "item_id": 50117141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117141", "by": "Thiebaut", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "there's also a very simple solution that is to deploy on AWS and let AWS handle the heavy workload", "excerpt": "It's a big issue for US startups that don't immediately build for GDPR compliance - however there's also a very simple solution that is to deploy on AWS and let AWS handle the heavy workload. Not every startup has the time to digest real compliance efforts that require experts - and implement the 2000 task list that's required, especially for enterprise who will look at that in big details - if you're into big headac", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting, GDPR compliance", "switched_from": "", "story": "We\u2019re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers"}, {"id": 801534741, "item_id": 50095921, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095921", "by": "kscan1992", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AWS (ECS/Fargate, RDS, Lambda, S3)", "excerpt": "NeuralFrame | Senior Backend Engineer, Medical Data Pipeline (Python + Rust) | REMOTE (US only, US time zones; no visa sponsorship) | Full-time | $170k\u2013$210k + 0.1%\u20130.25% equity We build software that hospitals, cancer registries and researchers use. You'd own the pipeline that pulls data from hospital systems and transforms it for analytics and research. Where Rust fits: part of our hospital data acquisition layer, ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 801534064, "item_id": 50095879, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095879", "by": "input_sh", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "me-south-01 (Bahrain) appears to be gone permanently", "excerpt": "Counter-argument: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status Both were struck over half a year ago and me-south-01 (Bahrain) appears to be gone permanently, while the data loss in me-central-01 (UAE) is limited to one of the availability zones.", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud regions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved"}, {"id": 801522433, "item_id": 50095152, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095152", "by": "hangrybear666", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I prefer it to aws for personal projects", "excerpt": "Hetzner is awesome, I prefer it to aws for personal projects, feel free to analyze my modularized instance setup with an LLM and rip out what you need, it's all hand built, most of the engineering went into cloud-init and network security - before machines could generate the same in hours lul https://github.com/fiscalismia/fiscalismia-infrastructure/tree/main/terraform/hetzner-cloud", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Neckbeard \u2013 A DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent"}, {"id": 801336792, "item_id": 50083549, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083549", "by": "nacipca", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AWS", "excerpt": "Location: Taiwan (UTC+8), spending time in Southeast Asia Remote: Yes (remote only) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Grape/REST APIs, RSpec, Hotwire, AWS, Stripe, web scraping (Watir, Selenium, Nokogiri, Ferrum/CDP), Claude Code / agentic workflows daily R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: [https://tungchinlee.github.io/Tung-Chin_Lee_Resume_Public.pdf] Email: tungchinli@gmail.com B", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 800697712, "item_id": 50043607, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043607", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Same for AWS Bahrain", "excerpt": "Same for AWS Bahrain, data centers are dual use technologies now and valid military targets. https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bot traffic from Yandex"}, {"id": 800169648, "item_id": 50010603, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010603", "by": "sciurus", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "As someone with an existing personal AWS account", "excerpt": "It looks like this relies on a new project-based multi-account system. As someone with an existing personal AWS account I wonder if I'll be able to use it. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/sign-in-new.html", "context": "has an existing personal AWS account", "use_case": "Personal cloud account", "switched_from": "", "story": "Serverless Horrors $10,811.41"}, {"id": 800167968, "item_id": 50010498, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010498", "by": "luhn", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AWS is finally rolling out a feature that lets you put a hard cap on spending.", "excerpt": "AWS is finally rolling out a feature that lets you put a hard cap on spending. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/create-spend-limit.html", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud spend limits", "switched_from": "", "story": "Serverless Horrors $10,811.41"}, {"id": 799757065, "item_id": 49984816, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984816", "by": "mbaker", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AWS, Azure, Docker, CI/CD", "excerpt": "Location: Dana Point, California (Orange County) Remote: Yes \u00b7 also open to Orange County / LA on-site or hybrid Willing to relocate: Yes, SF Bay Area Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Java, SQL \u00b7 React, Vue, Angular, D3.js, Three.js \u00b7 Node.js, REST APIs \u00b7 PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch \u00b7 AWS, Azure, Docker, CI/CD \u00b7 Stripe, Twilio \u00b7 Micropayments, Lightning (bolt11, bolt12, LNURL, L402), Cas", "context": "full-stack engineer of 15+ years", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 799683872, "item_id": 49980242, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980242", "by": "coayer", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "designed and deployed a HIPAA-compliant regionally-isolated global AWS platform", "excerpt": "Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Flux CD, Python, Typescript, Go R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://copey.dev/copeland-royall-resume.pdf Email: copeland [at] copey.dev An infrastructure-focused engineer: I've developed enterprise-scale and PCI-compliant IaC modules for EU product rollout at Visa; built a full-stack NLP-powered", "context": "An infrastructure-focused engineer", "use_case": "HIPAA-compliant cloud platform", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 799622032, "item_id": 49976377, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976377", "by": "stuaxo", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "stay away from cloud services especially AWS because it's hard to reason about where it will come from", "excerpt": "Yeah I want the hard budget limit, I absolutely don't want a suprise mega bill and as such stay away from cloud services especially AWS because it's hard to reason about where it will come from.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"}, {"id": 799477558, "item_id": 49967347, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967347", "by": "snicky", "date": "2026-10-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AWS", "excerpt": "Location: Poland, Europe Remote: Yes (11 YoE working remotely, EST/PST timezones OK too) Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity Technologies: Ruby on Rails (15 YoE), SQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Heroku, AWS, K8s, Datadog, Javascript (15 YoE), Typescript, React, Vue Skills: designing and implementing web apps across the entire stack, high-traffic optimizations, security, payment processing ar", "context": "Engineer with 15 YoE, job seeking", "use_case": "Cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 799205184, "item_id": 49950324, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950324", "by": "gentlerain", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's really in top 5 messy UI i have ever seen.", "excerpt": "I have been using AWS more recently but something I can't believe is how the whole UI/UX revolution of the last 10 or so years escaped them. Starting from the login point, who asks to login to root or IAM user account in 2026? Or having to change regions from a dropdown to see resources you own in those regions? It's really in top 5 messy UI i have ever seen.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"}, {"id": 799203936, "item_id": 49950246, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950246", "by": "simonw", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "they pause your access but don't delete your data for a 90 day grace period", "excerpt": "See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/create-spend-limit.html#spend-limit-reached - they pause your access but don't delete your data for a 90 day grace period.", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud hosting (spend limits)", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"}, {"id": 799023892, "item_id": 49938993, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938993", "by": "jackpepsi", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Infra - CloudFlare - AWS - Terraform", "excerpt": "Location: Berlin, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only To Australia (I'm from there) Technologies: Full Stack Product Engineer 17 years experience (Frontend leaning, with automotive and hardware interface experience) R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://tobyk.com.au/cv.pdf Connect on LinkedIn please, email has too much spam. https://www.linkedin.com/in/toby-knyvett/ I'm a specialist if you need to build an AI assisted cockpit", "context": "Full stack product engineer, 17 years experience", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 798960939, "item_id": 49935058, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935058", "by": "albertodenia", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "backend (Node, Supabase, Vercel, AWS)", "excerpt": "Location: Spain, Europe (UTC+1) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Objective-C, SwiftData, CoreData, Swift Concurrency, Swift Testing, XCTest, CloudKit, StoreKit. CI/CD pipelines (Bitrise, Fastlane), product analytics (Segment, Amplitude, Braze), error tracking (Sentry, Crashlytics). LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic), agentic coding (Claude Code, Codex). Also web (SvelteKit, Type", "context": "Freelance senior iOS developer, 15 years experience", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 798952485, "item_id": 49934530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934530", "by": "jlarks32", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AWS", "excerpt": "Rebar | Software Engineers (Product, Applied AI, ML Infra, Data Platform) | ONSITE 5 days/week, New York City (union square area!) | Full-time | $150k\u2013$260k + equity | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rebar We build AI estimating software for commercial HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors. Before bidding on a job, a contractor or estimator has to count every duct, fitting, diffuser, and piece of equipment across a set", "context": "Head of Engineering", "use_case": "Cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 798875458, "item_id": 49929716, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929716", "by": "CoreBackend", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AWS, Azure, GCP", "excerpt": "Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote: Yes (US); on-site in Los Angeles also works Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, Python, C#/.NET, Node, Java; Postgres, SQL Server; AWS, Azure, GCP; REST and gRPC APIs, webhooks, queues; Okta/OIDC/SAML; data migrations R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: on request Email: contact@corebackend.dev Backend and integration engineer. I run CoreBackend, a small senior-only backend firm in Los Angeles (https:/", "context": "Runs a small senior-only backend firm in Los Angeles", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 798833546, "item_id": 49927096, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927096", "by": "vasilht22", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Neon, Cloudflare, Docker, AWS", "excerpt": "Location: Skopje, North Macedonia (CET/CEST) Remote: Yes \u2014 flexible hours for US teams, including full Eastern/Central business hours and significant Pacific overlap. Willing to relocate: No (remote only) Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Vue 3, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, Neon, Cloudflare, Docker, AWS, TanStack Query, Tailwind CSS, REST APIs, n8n, AI integrations R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: Available by email Email:", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 798832159, "item_id": 49927009, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927009", "by": "madanosliw", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Amazon Web Services", "excerpt": "Location: Atlanta, GA, USA Remote: Absolutely Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: LLMs (because of course), Ruby/Rails, JavaScript (Node.js, React, Express, Next.js, TypeScript), Python, SQL, Java, PHP, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, PostGIS, Redis, DHIS2, Metabase, ODK, CommCare, Mapbox, Leaflet, Amazon Web Services (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, Lambda, SES, CloudFormation, ElastiCache), Google Cloud (Compu", "context": "runs a small consultancy, open to contracting", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 798796019, "item_id": 49924751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924751", "by": "lardissone", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "extensive AWS experience", "excerpt": "Location: Argentina (US Eastern timezone overlap) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Vercel, Docker, AI/LLMs, RAG, pgvector, AI agents R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/lardissone | https://leandroardissone.com/resume Email: leandro@ardissone.com I'm a senior full-stack developer with 25+ years of experi", "context": "Senior full-stack developer, 25+ years experience", "use_case": "Cloud infrastructure", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 798758512, "item_id": 49922407, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922407", "by": "robdahaldev", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The new AWS signup experience now lets devs build until their credits run out", "excerpt": "The new AWS signup experience now lets devs build until their credits run out and auto-shuts off resources to avoid any overspend. Also there's an option after credits run out to set a monthly spend cap where resources pause automatically when this spend cap is reached! More details in this blog and also a beginner project idea for new devs: https://builder.aws.com/content/3K40wU1kLaw4K1mIPkvVxKkx7mV/learn-aws-withou", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "No more surprise bills from AWS in the new signup experience"}, {"id": 797949552, "item_id": 49871847, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871847", "by": "elendilm", "date": "2026-09-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Recent Iranian attacks on AWS locations in Bahrain resulted in loss of data that simply could not be recovered.", "excerpt": "Recent Iranian attacks on AWS locations in Bahrain resulted in loss of data that simply could not be recovered. https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/aws-middle-east-data-loss/ Of course, if you had paid extra for the backups and redundancy, your data would survive. So to address your original point, unless you are paying extra for redundancy, it is cheaper if you use a 4TB SSD at retail price as the original commenter ", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past"}, {"id": 797640963, "item_id": 49852560, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852560", "by": "tolidano", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It runs on AWS and works fairly well.", "excerpt": "Hi, I'm Shawn. I made https://yamtam.nyc. Here is the blurb stolen directly from the about page: yamtam brings the entire NYC-area mass transit network together on a single, fast, offline-capable map \u2014 subways, LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit rail and buses, PATH, AirTrain JFK, the Roosevelt Island Tram, NYC Ferry, the Staten Island Ferry, MTA buses and the regional suburban bus networks of the tri-state area, plus liv", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Yamtam.nyc \u2013 yet another mass-transit all-in-one map"}, {"id": 797140176, "item_id": 49821261, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821261", "by": "autoexec", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Those cloud hosts like AWS have infrastructure in the UK", "excerpt": "Those cloud hosts like AWS have infrastructure in the UK and a UK bank's data should already be there for performance reasons (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-infrastructure/latest/regions/aws-regions.html). I can't promise that amazon has taken into account the possibility of not being able to phone home to the US, but I would hope an undersea cable cut is something they'd have already given serious considera", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"}, {"id": 795663650, "item_id": 49728978, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728978", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Compare to Github, Microsoft, Salesforce, and AWS outages that are always occurring in some fashion", "excerpt": "In my entire adult lifetime (mid 40s), my ISP has never been out for five days. Compare to Github, Microsoft, Salesforce, and AWS outages that are always occurring in some fashion. Reddit is down constantly in various ways and still continues to operate as a business, public no less, so I disagree about the need to chase five nines and broadly speaking, large distributed systems that are potentially unnecessary for t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Salesforce Global Outage"}, {"id": 795612992, "item_id": 49725812, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725812", "by": "microtonal", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Even just one American company like AWS could turn off a huge chunk of European economies.", "excerpt": "After decades of globalization, everyone is just extremely dependent on everyone. I think hardware is a bit complicated by the way. A lot of hardware is also not US controlled. For instance ARM Holdings is British, Japanese, or global depending on how you look at it and quite a lot of vendors rely on ARM's reference designs. Europe also has a lot of important chip designers, but they are more focused on embedded syst", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"}, {"id": 793584256, "item_id": 49599016, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599016", "by": "coayer", "date": "2026-09-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "deploying a multi-region AWS environment", "excerpt": "Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Python, Typescript, Go, Flux CD R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://copey.dev/copeland-royall-resume.pdf Email: copeland [at] copey.dev An infrastructure-focused engineer: I've worked on designing and deploying a multi-region AWS environment to host a 1.4k-label classification NLP pipeline for a", "context": "infrastructure-focused engineer", "use_case": "multi-region cloud environments", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 793559139, "item_id": 49597446, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597446", "by": "rahulroy", "date": "2026-09-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, React, Node.js", "excerpt": "Location: Hyderabad, India Remote: Yes \u2014 experienced working with distributed/async teams Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right opportunity Looking for: Senior / Lead / Staff Backend Engineer, Product Engineer, or backend-heavy Full-Stack roles. Also interested in AI product/platform roles where strong backend + product engineering matters. Technologies: At this point, I can move across different tech stacks, but h", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 793046356, "item_id": 49565397, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49565397", "by": "guripong", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The backend was NestJS on MySQL/MongoDB/Redis, deployed on AWS", "excerpt": "Location: Seoul, South Korea Remote: Yes (remote only) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Languages \u2014 C, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java. Full-stack \u2014 React, React Native, Next.js, Node.js, NestJS, Express, FastAPI, Django, Spring. Systems/Realtime \u2014 WebAssembly (Emscripten, SIMD, SharedArrayBuffer), Node native addons (node-gyp, N-API), Electron, WebSocket, Socket.io. ML \u2014 TensorFlow, PyTorch. Infra \u2014 AWS, GC", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 792841026, "item_id": 49552564, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552564", "by": "brianjcohen", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AWS with Pulumi IaC", "excerpt": "Confido Legal | Sr. Engineer | REMOTE (US only) | Full-time | $175k\u2013$225k base Confido Legal builds payments infrastructure for the legal industry. We're hiring a senior engineer to design, build, and maintain our software \u2014 leading architecture and product design, and translating business requirements into technical specs. This is a broad, high-ownership role on a small team: you'll ship and maintain features end-to", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 792641032, "item_id": 49540064, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540064", "by": "entaroadun123", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Cut $444k out of a Glacier bill covering 2.6 PB of objects", "excerpt": "Location: Renton, Washington (US Pacific) Remote: Yes, remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, Hotwire, Python, TypeScript/React, Go, Elixir/Phoenix/Ecto, AWS, Kubernetes, Playwright Resume: https://levelbrook-resume.s3.amazonaws.com/levelbrook-consulting-resume.pdf Email: levelbrookteam@gmail.com I run Levelbrook Consulting, a Rails-first practice on the US west coast. T", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 792495112, "item_id": 49530944, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530944", "by": "mgkimsal", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AWS, Docker", "excerpt": "Location: Raleigh, NC (US) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: PHP/Laravel/vanilla, Grails/Java, Javascript/Vue/React, SQL (sqlite, postgresql, mysql/maria), AWS, Docker, Junie/Claude/OpenAI, ElasticSearch/SOLR, Testing Main: https://kimsal.com R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://kimsal.com/kimsal_resume_2026.pdf Email: michael@kimsal.com Ideally looking more for fractional/part-time engagements - short term or long ter", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 792457729, "item_id": 49528608, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528608", "by": "kollmar28", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Do you feel scared and alone when opening the AWS console?", "excerpt": "Railway | Senior Product Eng (full-stack), Brand Designer - Web, Senior Growth Marketer, Senior Product Marketer, Account Executive, Scale| REMOTE (Worldwide) | https://railway.com/careers Do you feel scared and alone when opening the AWS console? Do you wish you could just tell Claude to manage your infra, and it would just work? Do you dream of a future where software is abundant and developers and normies alike ar", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 787441633, "item_id": 49215102, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215102", "by": "terhechte", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "For any horrible web administration UI:", "excerpt": "For any horrible web administration UI: - Apple Appstore Connect (gazillions of forms of metadata to release an app) - AWS - DigitalOcean - Google Play Store Whenever I dread logging in because I know the simple sounding task requires me to click through countless menus I use an agent browser. With confirmations of course. However, while the agent clicks through these (oftentimes dog slow) UIs I can do other things. ", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud administration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates"}, {"id": 786510423, "item_id": 49156901, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156901", "by": "jow13_12", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Stack I reach for: Python, TypeScript, AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, Grafana stack, OpenTelemetry, MCP", "excerpt": "Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Yes (or hybrid) Willing to relocate: Yes https://joecardoso.dev What I do: I build agentic systems and full-stack infrastructure. Recent work: - Founding contributor at NimbleBrain: designed the agentic loop and workflow engine that guides AI agents through building and publishing MCP server integrations end-to-end - Co-created Vispyr: self-hosted observability platform on AWS with a", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"}, {"id": 783935712, "item_id": 48995982, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995982", "by": "peter_stokes", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "All the UAE/Bahrain services have been disrupted since March/April", "excerpt": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status All the UAE/Bahrain services have been disrupted since March/April", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud infrastructure", "switched_from": "", "story": "Iran's IRGC claims attack on Amazon's main data hub in Bahrain"}, {"id": 783280113, "item_id": 48955007, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955007", "by": "ngsevers", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I still had no idea what anything would cost. At some point it just became clear to me that they intentionally designed it this way", "excerpt": "After 10 years of building on AWS infra I still had no idea what anything would cost. At some point it just became clear to me that they intentionally designed it this way and that complexity is the feature. I switched to digital ocean last year and really haven't had to think about infrastructure again.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud infrastructure", "switched_from": "", "story": "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION"}, {"id": 783188512, "item_id": 48949282, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949282", "by": "tete", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "We use their services cause we can trust that they know what they are doing.", "excerpt": "It's okay. They are market leaders. And we use their services cause we can trust that they know what they are doing.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION"}]}