AWS

AWS offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud.

5.0•268 reviews•

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AWS offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud.

5.0•268 reviews•

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AWS Reviews

The community submitted 268 reviews to tell us what they like about AWS, what AWS can do better, and more.

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Reviewers mostly see AWS as dependable, scalable infrastructure that fades into the background once it is running. Makers of Agentplace, Naoma AI Demo Agent, and Migma AI specifically cite Bedrock, low-latency demos, and high-volume email sending as proof it handles demanding workloads well. The main criticism is usability: one user wants better UX outside CLI/CDK, and a few founders say the console, pricing, and cost visibility can feel maze-like or overwhelming, especially for smaller teams.

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reliable cloud services (35)

scalable infrastructure (33)

extensive service offerings (7)

AWS Lambda (5)

AWS EC2 (2)

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used AWS to build FetchSandbox

•4 reviews

What's great

FetchSandbox runs entirely on AWS. Every sandbox, every spec's engine, and every reproduce→prove run — where we spin up two containers to prove a bug is real, then tear them down seconds later — happens here. As a solo founder I started on Lightsail for dead-simple, predictable hosting, and the best part is knowing the rest of AWS is right there when I need to scale, without a migration. It's the boring-in-the-best-way foundation: reliable enough that I think about my product, not my servers.

What needs improvement

AWS's breadth is also its friction. The console and pricing can be overwhelming, and the jump from Lightsail's simplicity to the full platform feels more like a cliff than a ramp — I'd love a smoother way to grow into the bigger services without re-architecting. More predictable cost visibility for small teams would help too. But the reliability makes the learning curve worth it.

vs Alternatives

FetchSandbox runs on AWS. Every sandbox, every spec's engine, and every reproduce→prove run lives here — so when an agent fires a workflow and we spin up two containers to prove a bug is real, that happens on AWS in seconds and tears down clean. It's the boring-in-the-best-way foundation: reliable enough that we get to think about the product instead of the servers.

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used AWS to build Wander

•4 reviews

A fully customizable and comprehensive solution. We rely on services like RDS, EC2, Auto Scaling Groups, and OpenSearch. I particularly appreciate having the flexibility to configure EC2 instances for seamless integrations, while OpenSearch offers the ideal solution for scaling with Elasticsearch to meet our growing demands.

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used AWS to build Antiquoted

•7 reviews

The loadbalancing goes hand-in-hand with our ECS usage, and ACM makes provisioning all of our certificates and serving them pretty trivial. I’d maybe have gone full AWS if Terraform/IaC wasn’t a thing, but hooking the CloudFlare & AWS providers up is easy as heck.

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AWS ECS (1)AWS ACM (1)AWS Elastic Load Balancing (1)

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