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Which Cloud Is Most in Demand on Hacker News? AWS vs Azure vs GCP (2011-2026)

Cloud-platform demand in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts: AWS's dominant lead over Azure, GCP, Heroku and Cloudflare, charted by share of postings since 2011.

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Ranked by demand (all-time)

  1. 1.AWS14,199 postings · peak Jun 2021
  2. 2.GCP1,893 postings · peak Jul 2021
  3. 3.Azure1,492 postings · peak Jun 2021
  4. 4.Heroku1,235 postings · peak Apr 2021
  5. 5.Cloudflare303 postings · peak Nov 2021
14,199
1,893
1,492
1,235
303
tip: use | to OR several terms into one bar, e.g. backend|sre|devops

Job postings

Hover (or click) a bar segment to read the job postings that mention that term in that month.

Each calendar month since 2011 as one bar. Switch to share % to stack the bands to 100% and see each one’s slice of the category’s postings, narrow the window, or click a month to read the postings behind the bar.

What the chart shows

There is no contest at the top of the cloud chart: AWS dominates the cloud-tagged postings by a wide margin across nearly the whole history, with Azure and GCP fighting over a distant second and Heroku fading as teams outgrow the managed-platform tier. Cloudflare appears later as the edge-and-network specialist. Read the relative bands to see exactly how lopsided the demand is, and the sample postings to see which roles name each platform - and how often a listing expects you to know more than one.

Popular AWS postings (the category leader)

  1. cuchoi · read the thread · view on HN

    …* Backend Software Engineer (Python, PostgreSQL PostGIS, Docker, AWS, Terraform) - $135-$155k — https: enveritas.org jobs backend-software-eng #10d7adef8us (worldwide remote)

  2. ernel · read the thread · view on HN

    …but it would be nice to have. FastAPI, Postgres, S3, Python, Render AWS, Codex Claude Kimi Qwen (any other foundational model experience), monitoring frameworks. Apply: https: www.origamics.ai join-us (Let us know if you are applying from HN.)

Each skill on its own

Build your own comparison on the full Who Is Hiring? chart, or see how these terms trend across all of Hacker News.