2024 Summary

The second annual Answers for AWS survey ran from January 16 to February 16, 2024. Thanks to promotion from the amazing AWS community, participation was up 29% from last year - a total of 426 responses. It's tough getting folks to fill out a survey, but participation is trending in the right direction and the data is interesting nonetheless.

The survey covered the following categories:

• Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD
• Serverless
• Containers
• NoSQL Databases
• Event driven architectures & event busses
• AI & Machine Learning

Some notable highlights include:

• The most loved AWS service is Simple Queue Service (SQS) with an overall positive/negative split of 98% 🎉.
• Usage of AWS SAM has overtaken the original Serverless Framework in the Serverless category, but for the second year running CDK has the highest retention of all tools.
• The most polarizing service is CloudFormation - 30% of respondents would not use it ever again, while 56% would.
• GitHub Actions wins every metric in the CI/CD category.
• While almost unknown in January 2023, OpenAI has taken the top spot away from Amazon Sagemaker in the AI & ML category.
• People are generally happy with the current state of CI/CD but unhappy with the state of AI & ML.
• Europe topped the charts beating out North America for number of survey responses - thank you!

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Thanks again to everyone who participated. I truly appreciate it. 🙏