What made you start building on AWS? Tell us your origin story.

Sep 17, 2026 · 5:00 PM UTC

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I just wanted to build a simple "Hello World" app. Two tutorials later, I had somehow provisioned Lambda, DynamoDB, and an S3 bucket with enough redundancy to survive the apocalypse. It's still running but now i'm afraid if i touch the console now, I'll bring down us-east-1
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I've been hired 10 years ago at a company which was using opsworks. I later converted it to EC2, then ECS. Now it's time to go full serverless with lambda. I've learned so many things during my journey!
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Heard about this thing called the Cloud and AWS seemed to be synonymous with word Cloud in 2022.
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🙌🙌🙌
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5 years ago I applied for a job and in the interview the guy asked do you know aws bc that's all we use ?
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that's so real
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AWS is the first cloud i heard and practiced and stuck now with it. i worked on IBMcloud too before this but they failed to provide innovative simple customer oreinted solutions overtime
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Just by listening to how the systems administrator at the first company I worked for managed so many EC2 instances using various Bash scripts, I found myself wondering, “What is an EC2?”
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Honestly? Legal wouldn’t approve GCP.
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My CTO requested that we use WordPress, but it must be static and not server-based. We were hosting Angular on an S3 bucket at the moment. I accepted the challenge and used an S3 bucket to host a WordPress website that included Angular and WordPress in two separate buckets with subdomains and communication between them. This is my previous blog about it: internetkatta.com/host-wordp…
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I need a cheap VM. I dont have money.
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The Amazon Nova hackathon :)
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i still havent started, but im about to start
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was trying to transition from help-desk/tech-support to cloud back in 2018, aws was the go-to and my current company used it extensively, so decided to up-skill and learn aws! also documented my whole journey here - piped.video/Sh15UCovHqc
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It all begun with PharmacyGuard, a project for the Amazon Agents for Humans Hackathon. It is now being considered for development into a genuine healthcare technology startup. This my github github.com/Nana-996/Pharmacy… Please leave a star for my project
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Back in 2020, I only knew Azure, GCP, and AWS. Free credits were easy, UI was beginner-friendly… and somehow, that’s how I found you. 😏❤️ Been my GTC (Go-To Cloud) ever since. Funny how I went looking for cloud credits and ended up finding my favorite cloud. ☁️❤️
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AWS sales had lunch with our executives, next thing you know we migrated 🙂
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I started building on AWS because I wanted to understand how modern applications scale beyond the code itself. What began with exploring EC2, S3 and RDS gradually turned into working with cloud-hosted enterprise PLM environments and automation. Now I’m exploring more of AWS, especially where cloud, AI and engineering can come together
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ec2 ♥️
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Amazon Aurora My favourite hahaha, as it help me to scale up my databases 🫡 higher availability, durability, performance.
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Free tier hosting my portfolio website on s3 because you know 5gb free storage
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Started with one simple question: how do I deploy my project ? That led me to AWS and eventually into cloud and DevOps. 😅
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Aws free plan 🤗
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I would say cost, and aws give more control and lots of options based on my usecases
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I was started building on AWS when I got hackathon credit in AWS, i used its EC2 Hosting and Amplify most. Love it, but sometime feels costly but reasonable.
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Has a bad Linux troubleshooting job interview. Decided to create a Linux/DevOps troubleshooting SaaS 😅
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