{"slug": "sst", "name": "SST", "category": "infra", "category_name": "Infrastructure and DevOps", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 1, "score": 2.021, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-05", "latest": "2026-04-19", "why": "I find this to be a manageable infrastructure-as-code solution for AWS deployments.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I find this to be a manageable infrastructure-as-code solution for AWS deployments.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "sst.dev", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://sst.dev/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["SST"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 739579552, "item_id": 46223722, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223722", "by": "callumgare", "date": "2025-12-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use it at work and I\u2019ve been quite happy with it", "excerpt": "As an alternative is anyone considering https://sst.dev/ (which uses Pulumi under the hood)? 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I only ever encountered one issue, which was pretty dumb, Amazon's CDK has hardcoded references to various package manager's lock files, and Bun wasn't one of them https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/3175", "context": "", "use_case": "Deploying cloud resources", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic acquires Bun"}, {"id": 733156160, "item_id": 45822260, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822260", "by": "deweller", "date": "2025-11-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I find this to be a manageable infrastructure-as-code solution for AWS deployments.", "excerpt": "AWS Amplify was supposed to solve this. It is built on the AWS CDK. But I found it too clunky and slow and gave up on it. These days I use SST (https://sst.dev) which is built on top of Pulumi. 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Curious to how much is just good marketing on their side and how much is maybe features of it I don\u2019t know that are \u201cvercel native\u201d", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Open sourcing the Remix Store"}, {"id": 739579552, "item_id": 46223722, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223722", "by": "callumgare", "date": "2025-12-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use it at work and I\u2019ve been quite happy with it", "excerpt": "As an alternative is anyone considering https://sst.dev/ (which uses Pulumi under the hood)? 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