!AWS Sucks

Independent AWS criticism

AWS sucks.
Here's why.

Bills that explode overnight. IAM policies nobody can reason about. Support loops, outage fog, egress traps, and suspensions that take your business down and then email you about it.

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Account suspension2026-08-04

They suspended my account, took my email server down with it, then told me to read the email they sent me

AWS suspended the account running my mail server. The suspension notice was delivered by email. To the mailbox they had just switched off. 202 domains went dark.

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