SST
Ranked 5 of 10 IaC tools by recommenders
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.
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.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 82%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 4.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Manageable infrastructure as code for AWS
“I find this to be a manageable infrastructure-as-code solution for AWS deployments.”
Comment from 5 Nov 2025 in “Deploying to Amazon's cloud is a pain in the AWS younger devs won't tolerate” “managing infra as code through sst.dev”
Comment from 10 May 2026 in “I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left” Good development experience and satisfaction
“it offers a far superior development experience”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS” “I've been quite happy with it”
Comment from 10 Dec 2025 in “The future of Terraform CDK”
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All 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“managing infra as code through sst.dev”
“it offers a far superior development experience”
“I like that they scale to $0”
“If you are using OpenNext and SST (or Netlify), then you are doing it right”
“SST's pre-fabs really make things easy to spin up resources.”
“I've been quite happy with it”
“that package works with bun”
“With SST v3 you're still specifying specific resources in code though”
“it's simply not enough, and the resulting interfaces are still way too brittle and complex”
“I find this to be a manageable infrastructure-as-code solution for AWS deployments.”
“learning something arguably better, like Cloudformation / Terraform / SST”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.