Is This Tech Dead?
Is This Tech Dead?
Jan 30, 2026Live
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Is Amazon Web Services dead?

Deaditude Score:

32.3%
ⓘ How is this calculated?
Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead
> Zero drama, zero surprises, zero reasons to update your LinkedIn.
*Data last collected: 21 Jan 2026, so it might be even worse now, sorry.

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🔬Component Breakdown

Dissecting the digital corpse
This is supposed to be an ad

Codebase Activity

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Reddit Drama

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Youtube Clickbaits

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Stackoverflow copypasting

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Job offering

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Companies adoption

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Hacker News Hype

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

⏱️ Tech Lifecycle Position

Has achieved stable mainstream adoption with robust community support and established patterns.

INNOVATION
PEAK
OBSOLESCENCE
✨
2006

GitHub Pulse

Maintenance Mode

Weekly Commit Activity

52 weeks agoNow
Stars
0
total stars
Forks
0
total forks
Open PRs
0
open pull requests
Recent Commits
0
last 30 days
Contributors
0
active developers
Pulse Check
No data
trend assessment

Stack Overflow Analysis

Needs Help

Question Metrics

Total Questions
45
Answer Rate
36%
Acceptance Rate
18%
Growth
+475%
In the last 30 days

Recent Questions

While trying to create ingress controller in aws kubernetes cluster I am getting error with fargate
Unanswered47 views
windowsamazon-web-servicespowershell
How to create S3 Tables using CloudFormation without getting namespace does not exist errors?
Unanswered45 views
amazon-web-servicesamazon-s3aws-cloudformation
Keycloak JWT groups claim returned as stringified array instead of JSON array in AWS API Gateway
Unanswered18 views
amazon-web-servicesjwtamazon-cognito

🗣️ Reddit Echo Chamber

Still Breathing

Not dead yet, but the Reddit vultures are circling

Community Size

369,624
Subscribers
0
Active Users

Activity Metrics

273
Posts
8.1
Avg. Upvotes
Growth Trend
Rising
+228.1%
Explosive growth!

Community Sentiment

RageMehFanboy
Perfectly Balanced
🚨

Migration Alert

1 mentions of migrating away from Amazon Web Services detected in discussions. Just a few deserters, for now.

Popular Discussions

Last 30 days
AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as sovereignty fears mount
r/aws15 days ago
418(98%)198
I managed to run Llama 3.2 on Lambda with sub-500ms cold starts. Here is the architecture.
r/aws25 days ago
94(96%)31
Do you feel terraform is quicker than cdk?
r/aws1 months ago
82(92%)117
Why doesn’t AWS need a “router network” between two subnets / VPCs?
r/aws24 days ago
79(92%)35
AWS Console is now unusable with Firefox
r/aws25 days ago
62(84%)46
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💼 Job Market Pulse

Thriving

Amazon Web Services on your resume? Maybe keep a backup skill handy.

Global Job Distribution

🇺🇸United States
8,061
🇮🇳India
4,115
🇩🇪Germany
581
🇬🇧United Kingdom
460
🇨🇦Canada
294
🇫🇷France
136

Market Summary

13,647
Total Jobs
🏢
331,598
Companies Using It
The entire industry is hooked on this tech. Resistance is futile.

Reality Check

Marketable Skill Alert!

Amazon Web Services is still paying the bills in 6 countries. Silicon Valley approves.

Job metrics derived from search results. Actual availability may be worse.

Source: Adzuna

🔸 Hacker News Discourse

HN Darling

Amazon Web Services gets moderate attention on HN. Neither cool nor uncool - just meh.

Mentions

14
Posts

Community Interest

Average points43.8
Moderate buzz

HN Verdict

The bikeshedding is strong with this thread.
HN karma potential
8/10

Notable Discussions

Order bypoints
How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services
3 months ago
164163
Amazon Web Services Outage Hits Major Sites and Apps
3 months ago
31
Amazon Web Services raised GPU prices
22 days ago
11
Ask HN: Is AWS down again?
3 months ago
8537
Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code
9 days ago
5018
Search on HN
"Remember that HN commenters once called React.js a terrible idea. Interpret accordingly."

▶️ YouTube Coverage

Fading Away

YouTube algorithm buried Amazon Web Services content deeper than archaeological discoveries.

Content Metrics

30
Videos
137.6K
Total Views
Content trend: Free falling-66.7%

Average Engagement

4.6K
Views per Video
Low10K+ views

Creator Landscape

Top channels covering Amazon Web Services:
DheerajTechInsight
Small Creator
Tech Tutorials with Piyush
Small Creator
Amazon Web Services
YouTube Royalty

Popular Videos

Sorted byviews
1 months ago
57539
2 months ago
22134
2 months ago
189
2 months ago
61
Search on YouTube
"If there's no 3-hour tutorial, does the technology even exist?"YouTube

📈Historical Score Timeline

Watch the slow death in progress
DateScore
21 Jan 202632.3%
8 Jan 202635.0%
25 Dec 202539.0%
11 Dec 202536.4%
28 Nov 202515.0%
14 Nov 202522.7%
1 Nov 202523.5%
19 Oct 202535.4%
5 Oct 202523.9%
21 Sept 202530.8%
8 Sept 202522.5%
25 Aug 202536.2%
11 Aug 202519.8%
29 Jul 202523.7%
15 Jul 202523.7%
1 Jul 202527.7%
18 Jun 202545.5%
4 Jun 202555.4%
10 May 202539.5%

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