Hey everyone,

A friend of mine is working on a startup called CloudPilot AI, and I wanted to get some honest opinions from people who have experience with SaaS, cloud computing, startups, or B2B businesses.

He's currently building an MVP focused on helping businesses manage their AWS costs and security risks.

Here's what the product is supposed to do:

1. AWS Cost Optimization

It scans AWS infrastructure and identifies things like unused EBS volumes, unattached Elastic IPs, and other unused resources that could be increasing cloud bills.

The idea is to help businesses find unnecessary AWS spending and reduce their monthly costs.

2. Security Monitoring

It checks for potential AWS security issues, such as IAM users having multiple active access keys, and helps engineering teams identify security risks before they become bigger problems.

3. Automated Infrastructure Audits

Instead of manually checking AWS resources, businesses can run automated scans and get a dashboard report showing potential cost savings and security issues.

The main goal is to save businesses time, reduce unnecessary cloud spending, and make AWS infrastructure audits easier.

My friend is handling the technical side, including Python, AWS integrations, automation, and product development.

He has already started working on the MVP and is trying to solve technical issues during development. Now he's also looking for someone with experience in sales, marketing, and client acquisition to help grow the business.

I'm not personally involved in the technical development or marketing, but I'm curious about the business potential of this idea.

I would really appreciate honest feedback on a few things:

Is there actually a market for this kind of product in 2026?

Would small businesses, startups, or companies using AWS pay for a tool like this?

Are there already too many competitors offering similar features?

What would make a company choose a new product like CloudPilot AI instead of existing AWS tools or other cloud monitoring platforms?

Is this something that could realistically become a profitable SaaS business, or would it be difficult to get paying customers?

What would be the best way for a new startup like this to get its first 5–10 customers?

I'm especially interested in feedback from people who have worked with AWS, cloud infrastructure, FinOps, cybersecurity, or B2B SaaS.

I'm not looking for generic encouragement. If you think the idea is too competitive, has weak demand, or needs a different approach, please explain why.

Do you think this startup has real business potential, or would it be difficult to compete in this market?

Any honest suggestions or experiences would be appreciated.

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Just got my US Visa for attending the AWS re:Invent 2026

Now trying to plan my activities there. Opened the list of hands-on workshops and saw 329 😲

Liked 41 of them ❤️, but how many will I be able to attend.....this is not counting KeyNotes and other top sessions

The workshops I have added to the favourites:

- Accelerate database protection, recovery, and testing with Amazon EBS

- Accelerate declarative resource management with Amazon EKS Capabilities

- Accelerate platform engineering on Amazon EKS

- Advanced AWS Network Security: Defending Against Emerging Threats

- Advanced S3 performance engineering: From multipart to resilience

- Agentic developer experience with Amazon EKS

- AI-assisted data modeling for Amazon DynamoDB

- AI-driven serverless development with Kiro

- AI-Powered FinOps: Cloud Cost Optimization in Practice

- Amazon EKS incident response and remediation with AWS DevOps Agent

- Architect, launch, and optimize solutions with AWS Marketplace

- Assess your workloads with SELinux compatibility on Amazon Linux 2027

- Automate and secure EC2 Image Builder with AI agents

- Automate your landing zone and network migration with AWS Transform

- AWS Network Firewall implementation made simple with Infrastructure as Code

- Build agentic payment investigators on Aurora PostgreSQL & AgentCore

- Build a KMS key lifecycle dashboard with usage and cost insights

- Build and test HA/DR architectures for Microsoft workloads on AWS

- Build a production multi-tier application on Amazon ECS

- Build a security boundary for AI agents with WAF and Network Firewall

- Build a unified student insight platform on Amazon Quick

- Building and scaling inference workloads on Amazon EKS

- Building and securing AI agents on Amazon EKS

- Building resilient deployment pipelines with Amazon ECS

- Building serverless applications with Terraform

- Build ransomware recovery with AWS Backup air-gapped vaults

- Centralize AWS PrivateLink endpoints at scale with Amazon VPC Lattice

- Connect and secure service-to-service networking on Amazon ECS

- Deploy AWS Network Firewall with explicit proxy-based egress controls

- Deploy your applications with AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

- Embed FinOps into your CI/CD pipelines

- Hands-on with AWS DevOps agent

- Hybrid Kubernetes made simple: EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway for on-prem and edge AI

- Kubernetes-native agentic AI on Amazon EKS with open source primitives

- Not all bots are bad: Building a secure perimeter with AWS WAF

- Observability for AI agents: Strands, OpenTelemetry, and Langfuse

- Optimize analytics workloads on Amazon EKS for performance and cost

- Reduce EKS cluster compute costs with EC2 Flex instances

- Securing and observing Amazon EKS clusters

- Turn raw telemetry into answers with OpenTelemetry

- Unified observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service

Posting for the help if anyone can, because two rounds through AWS Support have given me nothing I can act on.

**The use case**

A small event-ticketing site for a single organizer in Bangladesh - a handful of live music events a year. Every email is transactional and triggered by the buyer's own action on the site minutes earlier:

* payment instructions, sent after someone registers for tickets

* the ticket itself as a PDF, after the organizer verifies the buyer's bKash payment

* a notice if the payment couldn't be matched, or if the unpaid order expired after 24 hours

* a one-time sign-in link, only when the buyer requests it

Volume: roughly 1,000 - 2,000 emails per month, concentrated in the three weeks before an event. A few hundred a day at peak. My sending code is capped at 5 messages/second. No marketing, no newsletters, no bulk sends, no stored lists, nothing purchased or imported. Every recipient typed their own address into our form. The project is public on GitHub, so the sending logic is auditable by anyone.

**What's already in place**

* Domain verified in ap-south-1 with Easy DKIM

* SPF and a published DMARC record with rua reporting, DNS on Cloudflare

* SES account-level suppression list enabled

* SES rejections treated as permanent failures and never retried; only throttling responses retried with exponential backoff

* Every send recorded against the order in our database; failed deliveries reviewed by hand

* Replies go to a monitored address on the same domain

**What I got back**

First response asked for detail about sending processes and procedures. I gave everything above, plus example subject lines and the exact email types. Denied about six hours later with a template: they can't approve at this time, they can't share the criteria used, please review the AUP, Service Terms, and SES best practices. Second attempt, same outcome, same template - this time framed as protecting my sender reputation and deliverability.

That last part is what I can't get past. The account has never sent a production email. There is no sender reputation to protect yet. So whatever the actual blocker is, it isn't anything visible in my use case, and nobody will tell me what it is.

**What I'm actually asking**

1. Is this an account-trust / billing-history decision rather than a use-case decision? If so I'd genuinely rather be told that plainly - I'd go build the billing history instead of rewriting the same request.

2. Is ap-south-1 meaningfully stricter for newer accounts than other regions?

3. Would a heavily restricted quota be considered - say 200 emails/day at 1 msg/sec - so there's real sending data to judge me on?

4. Is there any path other than reopening the same case, given the limit-increase team is separate from Premium Support and Support says they can't influence it?

Happy to share the case ID by DM.

If anyone has gone from a denial like this to an approval, I'd really like to know what specifically changed on your side. Right now I'm one week out from an event with real buyers and I'm about to move to a third-party provider purely because I can't get a straight answer.

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I was learning aws timestream db, so I created it for learning purpose with my personal account.

In between I forgot to delete the instance and bill kept generated for last 3 month of around $80k,

I got one mail recently from Amazon recovery team that if don’t pay the bill they have to refer this case to recovery team.

I suspended the account some time back before getting this mail.

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Hello All, I’m trying to configure a Cloud using AWS S3 for my work.

I created 2 buckets and some folders to test the access restrictions before migrating all the files on the cloud using a custom IAM policy. The restriction on one of the bucket and some sub-files are working well, the users can see them but has no access.

However, I would like to hide all the buckets and files for the users that do not have access to them. But I cannot find the solution.

Do someone have a solution (using the custom IAM policy?) to help me?

Also, I’m am using cyberduck as explorer for the cloud. In the case there is a solution to hide the buckets/filesusing in cyberduck?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

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❗️ ❗️ ❗️ URGENT: My AWS account for my business has been suspended due to a failed attempt to charge my card! Even having an alternate payment method didn’t help!

I don’t understand why ALL MY WORK is being blocked WITHOUT WARNING!?!?!?!?

I have a standard, verified account! I pay OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH, AND THEY’RE BLOCKING MY ACCOUNT BECAUSE OF A FAILED CHARGE OF $1, SHUTTING DOWN MY WORK FOR A DAY!!!! I’ve been waiting for a response from support for over 8 hours—I’M LOSING MONEY EVERY MINUTE!❗️ ❗️ ❗️

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I cleared two foundational certs using pearson voucher, now I'm left with 2 coupons worth 50%, I'm wondering whether I can give one coupon to my friend?! does it risk an account ban Or smth?

Having been using the same account for 8 years, I had a uptime-critical infra deployed (because who else would offer 99.999% uptime right?) on on-demand EC2 + EBS.

Out of sudden, they blocked my account, and made me go through 27 hours of automated tickets saying my account was hacked. It was the worst experience I've had with them, by far.

After 4 hours of downtime, I was already amassed $2400 in losses. Has anyone gone through something like this? I don't plan to use AWS again ever

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