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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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2026404 stories
AWS Acquires DuckLabs↗ ducklabs.com · HN · 316 comments · 1102 points · Aug 26, 2026
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS↗ openai.com · HN · 131 comments · 370 points · Jun 01, 2026
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub↗ krebsonsecurity.com · HN · 182 comments · 478 points · May 19, 2026
I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left↗ fourlightyears.blogspot.com · HN · 650 comments · 854 points · May 09, 2026
Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS↗ github.com · HN · 210 comments · 390 points · Jan 04, 2026
2025541 stories
AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS↗ oneuptime.com · HN · 491 comments · 727 points · Oct 29, 2025
Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region↗ aws.amazon.com · HN · 174 comments · 551 points · Oct 23, 2025
AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1↗ health.aws.amazon.com · HN · 2057 comments · 2246 points · Oct 20, 2025
Major AWS Outage Happening↗ old.reddit.com · HN · 12 comments · 1079 points · Oct 20, 2025
Migrating from AWS to Hetzner↗ digitalsociety.coop · HN · 627 comments · 1140 points · Oct 17, 2025
2024624 stories
Amazon Nova↗ aws.amazon.com · HN · 152 comments · 365 points · Dec 03, 2024
Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)↗ aws.amazon.com · HN · 160 comments · 524 points · Nov 25, 2024
I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100↗ elliott-king.github.io · HN · 276 comments · 461 points · Nov 14, 2024
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS↗ allthingsdistributed.com · HN · 83 comments · 385 points · Aug 22, 2024
How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket↗ tracebit.com · HN · 215 comments · 583 points · Feb 26, 2024
2023762 stories
AWS us-east-1 down↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 25 comments · 114 points · Jun 13, 2023
AWS us-east-1 down↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 11 comments · 41 points · Jun 13, 2023
The AWS Console is mostly down↗ us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com · HN · 10 comments · 35 points · Jun 13, 2023
Create an IAM group and ass a user↗ docs.aws.amazon.com · HN · 7 comments · 30 points · Mar 21, 2023
Amazon S3 will now encrypt all new data with AES-256 by default↗ bleepingcomputer.com · HN · 6 comments · 18 points · Jan 06, 2023
2022856 stories
AWS and Blockchain↗ tbray.org · HN · 706 comments · 619 points · Nov 20, 2022
We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS↗ levelup.gitconnected.com · HN · 344 comments · 440 points · Sep 28, 2022
AWS us-east-2 outage↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 247 comments · 336 points · Jul 28, 2022
AWS S3: Sometimes you should press the $100k button↗ cyclic.sh · HN · 233 comments · 408 points · Feb 17, 2022
Akamai to Acquire Linode↗ akamai.com · HN · 326 comments · 986 points · Feb 15, 2022
2021993 stories
Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 614 comments · 863 points · Dec 22, 2021
Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 468 comments · 879 points · Dec 15, 2021
AWS us-east-1 outage↗ status.aws.amazon.com · HN · 957 comments · 1658 points · Dec 07, 2021
Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt↗ cloudirregular.substack.com · HN · 439 comments · 840 points · May 04, 2021
AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana↗ aws.amazon.com · HN · 935 comments · 1314 points · Jan 21, 2021
20201,378 stories
AWS Lambda pricing now per ms↗ aws.amazon.com · HN · 275 comments · 629 points · Dec 01, 2020
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances↗ aws.amazon.com · HN · 481 comments · 1091 points · Dec 01, 2020
I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency↗ twitter.com · HN · 185 comments · 792 points · Aug 09, 2020
AWS services explained in one line each↗ adayinthelifeof.nl · HN · 344 comments · 1668 points · May 26, 2020
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs↗ backblaze.com · HN · 279 comments · 641 points · May 04, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests↗ fakecloud.dev · HN · 74 comments · 149 points · Sep 26, 2026
AWS Acquires DuckLabs↗ ducklabs.com · HN · 316 comments · 1102 points · Aug 26, 2026
I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again↗ joshkaramuth.com · HN · 132 comments · 193 points · Aug 28, 2026
I Rewrote My Back End in Go in 72 Hours and Cut My AWS Bill by 94%↗ bajura.online · HN · 26 comments · 61 points · Sep 08, 2026
AWS now supports spend limits↗ docs.aws.amazon.com · HN · 4 comments · 22 points · Sep 18, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests↗ fakecloud.dev · HN · 74 comments · 149 points · Sep 26, 2026
I Rewrote My Back End in Go in 72 Hours and Cut My AWS Bill by 94%↗ bajura.online · HN · 26 comments · 61 points · Sep 08, 2026
AWS now supports spend limits↗ docs.aws.amazon.com · HN · 4 comments · 22 points · Sep 18, 2026
SCH: An affordable sandbox for Coding Agents in your AWS account↗ c-daniele.github.io · HN · 7 comments · 8 points · Sep 13, 2026
Show HN: Spinifex – 19 releases in, from 3 AWS services to 11↗ mulgadc.com · HN · 7 comments · 7 points · Sep 08, 2026
Ask HN: Help choosing between AWS ECS and EKS↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 9 comments · 5 points · Sep 18, 2026
Deploying IPv6-First EKS on AWS: What Still Doesn't Work, and What It Saves↗ labs.ripe.net · HN · 3 comments · 4 points · Sep 22, 2026
Day 13. Three production applications on AWS down↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 3 comments · 4 points · Sep 15, 2026
An agent fleet that turns an IAM audit log into signed Terraform↗ medium.com · HN · 1 comments · 4 points · Sep 12, 2026
Show HN: Yulin Local AWS Simulator↗ yulinsim.dev · HN · 1 comments · 4 points · Sep 05, 2026

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