# SST

9 Hacker News commenters recommended SST and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend SST as a manageable infrastructure-as-code tool for AWS, with easy prefab resources and a good development experience. Critics say its interfaces can be brittle and complex, and that it still means specifying resources in code.

## Why people recommend it

- Manageable infrastructure as code for AWS (2 comments): "I find this to be a manageable infrastructure-as-code solution for AWS deployments." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822260)) "managing infra as code through sst.dev" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088583))
- Good development experience and satisfaction (2 comments): "it offers a far superior development experience" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862659)) "I've been quite happy with it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223722))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Terraform](https://hackerapproved.com/p/terraform.md): 128 recommend
- [Pulumi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pulumi.md): 44 recommend
- [AWS CDK](https://hackerapproved.com/p/aws-cdk.md): 29 recommend
- [OpenTofu](https://hackerapproved.com/p/opentofu.md): 20 recommend
- [Stelvio](https://hackerapproved.com/p/stelvio.md): 8 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "SST", https://hackerapproved.com/p/sst/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).