Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderHey HN, I wrote this, thanks for all the feedback. In particular if I've mischaracterized the functionality of a service or you see something that's really off please email me at [email protected] or just tell me here and I'll fix it.
Hey, Author here. This is old and I haven't added some of the new services that AWS has released since I first wrote it. Whenever this list comes up there's generally a group of people that dislike it for trying to be at least mildly humorous (The whole concept for it started with my developer friends and I joking about some of the names and how opaque they were, so not sure what I'm supposed to do). There were a…
Azure service names by comparison: Virtual Machines, Storage, Functions, Pipelines, Archive Storage, Active Directory, Repos [1]. Personally, I am not irked by less-descriptive names as much as with the hoard of acronyms—S3, EC2, SQS, SES, SNS. [1]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 2624
- Total comments
- 403
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-09-10 | AWS in Plain English | cmg | 6 | 0 |
| 2015-09-11 | Amazon Web Services in Plain EnglishFirst breakout · Best thread | ins0 | 1479 | 223 |
| 2017-01-20 | Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015) | apsec112 | 655 | 75 |
| 2018-06-29 | Amazon Web Services in Plain English | LyalinDotCom | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-11-17 | Amazon Web Services in Plain EnglishHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | ccnafr | 483 | 105 |