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How “aws” trended on Hacker News

“Aws” was mentioned 301,260 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2021 with 4,108 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “aws” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “aws”

1. 1.Ask HN: Is S3 down? 2,589 points · 1,055 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
2. 2.AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 2,246 points · 2,058 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' 1,697 points · 744 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.AWS services explained in one line each 1,668 points · 344 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
5. 5.AWS us-east-1 outage 1,658 points · 957 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service 1,466 points · 637 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
7. 7.AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana 1,314 points · 935 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention 1,224 points · 496 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS 1,142 points · 614 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Migrating from AWS to Hetzner 1,140 points · 627 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Major AWS Outage Happening 1,079 points · 12 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' 1,065 points · 532 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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