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Is this site really the right place for Amazon Web Services?

We have a number of questions tagged with , , and/or [amazon-s3].

Is this really the best site for these questions? Okay, granted, AWS makes it really easy to spin up and provision servers using a web interface, but are they really web applications in the same way that Gmail, Twitter, etc. are?

I don't think so.

Compare to the same categories on Server Fault:

They have thousands of questions, a large portion of them with answers, compared to the only handful of questions here, most of which, if not closed, still aren't answered.

Even Webmasters seems like it'd be a better place:

There they've got dozens of questions, with a lot more votes and a lot more answers.

Look at some of the ones we have:

Asking about if its possible to host a Windows 32 application on AWS. Hosting isn't on-topic here; there's nothing special about AWS in that regard.

Asking about setting up a CGI-BIN on a virtual private server. That's server configuration; just because you do it through a web application doesn't make it a question about a web app.

Asking about configuration of email delivery rules. Again, not a question on how to use a web application.

Asking how to attach a volume to an instance. Again, I don't see how this is about using a web application; it's just that the tool happens to use a web interface.


Just because there's a web front-end doesn't make it on-topic for web applications. We don't accept questions about router configuration, and almost all of them use a web front-end. Except for maybe one or two exceptions, I don't think any of these questions belong here.

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