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."

The $50K AWS Surprise Party

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22 hours ago 151.1K views 0 shares

The $50K AWS Surprise Party

The cloud bill saga continues! 💸 Behold the AWS financial horror story in two acts! In Act One, our innocent newcomer trips over a rake and—BOOM—$50K bill out of nowhere! The cloud gods laugh as another soul learns about auto-scaling the hard way. But wait! Act Two reveals the DEVASTATING TRUTH: even the AWS skateboard pros doing fancy tricks are STILL getting slapped with the same catastrophic bills! Turns out no amount of experience can save you from that moment when you forget to shut down that one test instance in us-east-1 that's secretly mining Bitcoin. The moral? We're all just one forgotten resource away from financial ruin. Sweet dreams, cloud engineers!

Schedule I Drug: Cloud Computing Edition

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10 days ago 257.5K views 0 shares

Schedule I Drug: Cloud Computing Edition

Nothing destroys your financial stability quite like AWS charging you by the millisecond for that cursor blinking on your EC2 instance. One minute you're debugging, the next you're selling your kidney on the black market because you forgot to terminate that "unlimited" resource. The cloud doesn't rain money—it vacuums it directly from your bank account. Next time just stick to Notepad++ like a reasonable poverty-avoiding human.

Just 15 More Years

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15 days ago 219.6K views 0 shares

Just 15 More Years

Hiring managers living in a parallel universe where Java has existed since the 1970s and humans code until they're 90. Nothing says "entry-level position" quite like requiring 45 years of experience in technologies that haven't existed that long. Spring Boot was released in 2014, React in 2013, and Kubernetes in 2014 - but sure, let's pretend someone's been mastering them since the Nixon administration. The best part? This is probably still listed as a "junior developer" role paying $45K with "room for growth." Time to dust off that time machine in my garage...

Bank Balance Vs AWS

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1 month ago 248.9K views 0 shares

Bank Balance Vs AWS

Nothing quite like that sinking feeling when you realize your bank account is being drained by a cloud instance you spun up for a "quick test" three months ago. The AWS bill doesn't care about your financial situation - it just keeps growing like a digital tumor while you blissfully forget about it. The cloud giveth convenience, and the cloud taketh away your rent money. Pro tip: Set up billing alerts or just accept that unexpected AWS charges are the modern tech worker's version of stepping on a Lego at 3am.

This Is A Public Service Announcement: Check Your AWS Bill

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1 month ago 307.5K views 0 shares

This Is A Public Service Announcement: Check Your AWS Bill

Nothing triggers financial panic quite like remembering you left an AWS instance running. That $5 test server you spun up "just for a minute" three months ago? It's now draining your bank account faster than a teenager with your credit card at an Apple Store. The cloud giveth, and the cloud taketh away—usually from your checking account. Next time you're wondering why you're eating ramen for the third week straight, check your AWS console. Mystery solved.

But My Prompt Had Guardrails To Not Overdraft My Checking Account

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1 month ago 223.3K views 0 shares

But My Prompt Had Guardrails To Not Overdraft My Checking Account

HONEY, WHERE'S MY WALLET?! That soul-crushing moment when startup founders go from "we're disrupting the industry" to "we're disrupting our bank accounts." You thought your little app would cost pennies to host until AWS sent you a bill that reads like the national debt. Those free tier credits evaporated faster than my will to live during a merge conflict. The cloud isn't just where your data lives—it's where your financial dreams go to DIE. 💸

Choose Your Cloud Nightmare

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1 month ago 328.6K views 0 shares

Choose Your Cloud Nightmare

Ah, the classic cloud provider panic attack. Three identical red buttons labeled "Azure DevOps," "AWS DevOps," and "GCP DevOps" with a sweating person having an existential crisis below. It's like being asked which kidney you'd prefer to donate. The truth? Your resume needs all three, your sanity can handle none, and your company will probably switch platforms right after you become certified in one. The real punchline is that six months after mastering your chosen platform, management will announce they're "pivoting to a multi-cloud strategy" anyway. Just close your eyes and press one—the anxiety is the only constant.

I Am The IT Department

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1 month ago 429.9K views 0 shares

I Am The IT Department

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of these job listings! 💀 Recruiters out here casually asking for someone who can juggle 17 different technologies spanning three programming languages, two frontend frameworks, three databases, four AWS services, Linux admin skills, testing methodologies, containerization, AND orchestration... all while probably offering "competitive salary" (translation: barely above minimum wage). Honey, they're not looking for a "Full Stack Developer" - they're looking for an ENTIRE COMPANY crammed into one exhausted human body! What's next? "Must also make coffee, unclog toilets, and occasionally perform heart surgery"?!

Cat Vs Modern Infrastructure

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1 month ago 409.7K views 0 shares

Cat Vs Modern Infrastructure

Spend millions on microservices, Kubernetes clusters, and 17 different AWS services that require a team of 30 DevOps engineers to maintain... or just get a cat to knock it all down in 5 seconds flat. The ultimate chaos engineer doesn't need a certification—just some catnip and a grudge against your uptime. Billion-dollar infrastructure vs. one fluffy boi. We all know who wins that battle.

Dev Ops Prank Email Bot

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2 months ago 318.4K views 0 shares

Dev Ops Prank Email Bot

OH. MY. GOD. The ABSOLUTE VILLAIN creating a bot to send heart-attack-inducing emails to poor unsuspecting GitHub users! 😱 Nothing says "Happy Friday night" like making developers FRANTICALLY check their AWS console at 11PM while their dinner gets cold and their date wonders why they're hyperventilating! $30,000 in cloud costs?! That's not a bill, that's a down payment on a HOUSE! The sheer CHAOS this would cause in Slack channels everywhere... DevOps teams would be having emergency meetings while still in their pajamas! Pure EVIL GENIUS wrapped in a 280-character tweet!

I Have A New Idea For This Weekend

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2 months ago 308.6K 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

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3 months ago 361.6K 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.

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