AWS Memes

AWS: where the cloud is just someone else's computer with 300+ services and a billing system designed by sadistic geniuses. These memes celebrate Amazon's cloud platform that simultaneously revolutionized infrastructure and created an entire industry of cost optimization consultants. If you've ever provisioned a t2.micro to save money only to forget about it for years, stared in horror at an unexpected bill after leaving a test environment running, or felt the special satisfaction of architecting a solution using only 15 of their services instead of 30, you'll find your fellow cloud architects here. From the labyrinthine IAM permissions to the existential question of which database service to use this week, this collection honors the platform that made "lift and shift" a strategy and "serverless" ironically mean "even more servers, but we manage them."

I Have A New Idea For This Weekend
AWS Devops Git Programming Cloud
9 days ago 111.6K views 0 shares
I Have A New Idea For This Weekend
Causing mass cardiac events in the developer community with a single email. Pure evil. The beauty is in the timing - 11PM Friday when everyone's either drunk or asleep, ensuring maximum panic when they finally see it Saturday morning with a hangover. The $30,000 figure is just specific enough to be believable. Somewhere, an AWS engineer just felt a disturbance in the force.

Run An EC2 For 5 Mins And Win
AWS Devops Programming Cloud
19 days ago 147.7K views 0 shares
Run An EC2 For 5 Mins And Win
The SRE just found the ultimate money hack. AWS is basically a financial black hole where your cloud budget goes to die. Launch a few over-provisioned instances, forget about that auto-scaling group for a weekend, or accidentally deploy to all regions simultaneously, and boom—you've burned through $100M faster than you can say "terraform destroy." The genie adding a fourth rule is just acknowledging the universal truth that AWS billing is basically legalized theft with a nice dashboard.

Finding A Tech Job In 2025 Be Like
AWS Security Devops Kubernetes Docker
22 days ago 159.1K views 0 shares
Finding A Tech Job In 2025 Be Like
The job market's final boss has arrived! On the left: a job description requiring mastery of 20+ technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, JavaScript, Python, Linux, security tools like CISSP and Palo Alto, plus NIST compliance and .NET. On the right: the actual job? Excel spreadsheet jockey. It's the classic tech industry bait-and-switch where companies demand you know how to build a nuclear reactor just to change the lightbulbs. The recruiter probably thinks "full-stack" means you can stack paper forms into a full pile.

The Manual Deployment "Hack"
AWS Devops Javascript Programming Backend
24 days ago 135.1K views 0 shares
The Manual Deployment "Hack"
The ultimate bait-and-switch! First declares "CI/CD is a scam" to trigger every DevOps engineer on LinkedIn, then proceeds to describe... the most basic manual deployment process imaginable. What he's describing is literally the antithesis of CI/CD - spinning up EC2 instances and manually SSHing to deploy code. That's like saying "electric cars are a scam" and then revealing your amazing alternative is... walking. The cherry on top is the company name "Unemployed.ai" and the self-aware closing line. Pro tip: following this "advice" is indeed the fastest path to joining the unemployment statistics!

The Serverless Illusion
AWS Devops Azure Programming Backend
27 days ago 199.8K views 0 shares
The Serverless Illusion
The classic marketing vs. reality gap strikes again! "Serverless" architecture sounds magical—like your code just floats in some ethereal digital dimension. Then you peek behind the curtain and—surprise!—it's just someone else's servers. It's like ordering a "meatless" burger only to discover it's just regular meat that someone else chewed for you. The shocked cat face perfectly captures that moment when you realize the cloud is just fancy marketing for "computers I don't personally have to restart at 3AM."

Now That's Truly Serverless
AWS Devops Programming Backend Cloud
28 days ago 172.2K views 0 shares
Now That's Truly Serverless
Everyone's talking about "serverless" like it's magic, but nobody can explain what's actually happening under the hood. Meanwhile, your AWS bill is skyrocketing faster than crypto in 2017. The best part? Those same DevOps wizards who convinced you to go serverless are probably just as confused as you are, but they're too busy setting up Kubernetes clusters they don't need to admit it. Remember: "serverless" doesn't mean there are no servers—it just means you're paying someone else a fortune to hide them from you.

Server Go Brrr Behind The Serverless Curtain
AWS Devops Azure Gcp Programming
1 month ago 188.2K views 0 shares
Server Go Brrr Behind The Serverless Curtain
The greatest marketing trick the cloud ever pulled was convincing developers that servers don't exist. Turns out "serverless" is just someone else's server with a fancy API and a premium price tag. It's like ordering food delivery and pretending your kitchen doesn't exist because you didn't cook. The shocked cat face is every developer the moment they realize they've been bamboozled by buzzwords. Next they'll try selling us "codeless programming" that's just code hidden behind a drag-and-drop interface.

We've Been Bamboozled
AWS Devops Azure Gcp Programming
1 month ago 172.8K views 0 shares
We've Been Bamboozled
THE AUDACITY! All these years they've been selling us this magical "cloud" concept, promising our data is floating in some mystical digital heaven. Then you peek behind the curtain and—GASP—it's just regular computers... ON THE GROUND! Not suspended in fluffy white clouds! Not powered by unicorn dreams! Just boring server racks sitting in warehouses, probably in New Jersey or something. My entire tech career is built on a LIE! Next thing you'll tell me is that Big Data isn't actually physically larger than Regular Data. I'm having an existential crisis right now. 💀

It's All Virtual
AWS Devops Programming Java Cloud
1 month ago 182.2K views 0 shares
It's All Virtual
The existential crisis hits hard when junior devs finally grasp that their precious code is just a tiny speck in an endless Russian doll of virtualization. Their Java app isn't running on a "computer" – it's running on a Java Virtual Machine, which is running on a VM, which is running on a hypervisor, which is part of a Virtual Private Cloud... which is probably running in some AWS data center that might not even physically exist for all we know. Seven years into my career and I'm still not convinced my code isn't just running in a simulation inside another developer's fever dream. The turtles really do go all the way down.

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, But For Software Development
AWS Security Devops Programming Linux
1 month ago 232.6K views 0 shares
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, But For Software Development
SWEET MOTHER OF LEGACY CODE! 😱 A Gordon Ramsay-style tech show would be the MOST SAVAGE THING EVER! Imagine him discovering your company is running Ubuntu 8.04 (released in 2008 and LONG dead) with not one but TWO backdoors AND a crypto miner stealing your electricity! That's like finding expired ingredients from the last decade AND rats in the kitchen! And owing $2 MILLION to AWS?! That's not technical debt, that's technical BANKRUPTCY! The cloud bill alone would make Gordon's veins pop out of his forehead while he screams "THIS INFRASTRUCTURE IS SO OLD IT REMEMBERS WHEN JAVASCRIPT WAS COOL THE FIRST TIME!"

The AWS Cost Management Learning Curve
AWS Devops Programming Cloud
1 month ago 167.7K views 0 shares
The AWS Cost Management Learning Curve
The AWS cost management learning curve is a financial horror story in two acts: Act 1: The newbie who steps on a rake and gets smacked with a $50K bill because they accidentally left an expensive service running. Classic rookie mistake - "I just wanted to try this one feature..." Act 2: The "experts" who've learned to skateboard around the rakes but still somehow rack up the same bill. They're just doing it with style now! They've mastered the art of saying "that's within our projected burn rate" with a straight face while sweating internally. The cloud is just someone else's computer that charges you by the millisecond for the privilege of forgetting to turn things off.

The Genie's Fourth Rule: No AWS
AWS Devops Programming Cloud
1 month ago 161.5K views 0 shares
The Genie's Fourth Rule: No AWS
The SRE just found the ultimate loophole to the genie's billion-dollar challenge, and the genie immediately shut that down faster than you can say "unexpected billing alert." Anyone who's ever deployed anything on AWS knows that mysterious $100M bill is just a few forgotten EC2 instances away. One day you're launching a "small test environment," the next day you're explaining to your CEO why your startup needs another funding round just to pay this month's cloud bill. Even supernatural beings with infinite cosmic power know better than to mess with AWS pricing. The fourth rule? "No cloud services that scale automatically and drain your life savings while you sleep."