AWS Cloud services is going through an overhaul in the past couple of years with the sunsetting of even some notable service. Listed below are some of the notable services that are marked for sunset latest by the end of year 2024:
- AWS OpsWorks: is a managed service for Chef/Puppet, a configuration management tool. It has reached its end of life in AWS Cloud.
- AWS Cloud9: is a cloud-based integrated development environment. If you are still using it, you may want to consider checking out their blog post titled, "How to migrate from AWS Cloud9 to AWS IDE Toolkits or AWS Cloudshell".
- AWS CodeCommit: is a serverless version control repository service and AWS has recently cut out access to it for new customers and that implies it is marked for sunset. You can confirm this from its VP Jeff Barr's tweet, if you were to follow him. They later published a blog post titled, "How to migrate your AWS CodeCommit repository to another Git provider", that should be of interest to you, if you were to be using this service of theirs'.
- AWS CodeBuild: is a serverless continuous integration (CI) service that compiles, tests, and packages code. It takes source code from various repositories (e.g., GitHub, AWS CodeCommit) and produces artifacts (e.g., executables, libraries, containers) that can be deployed to various environments. It is a step in the AWS CodePipeline service, if you were to use it.
- AWS CodePipeline: is a serverless continuous deployment/delivery (CD) service that automates the deployment process by creating a pipeline that moves code changes through various stages (e.g., build, test, deploy). It orchestrates the workflow, triggering builds, tests, and deployments, and provides visibility into the pipeline's progress.
- AWS Data Pipeline: is a serverless generic ETL service for moving data between a source and a target. This service as per AWS Doc is in maintenance mode gearing up for sunset.
- Amazon Sumerian: is a service that provides easy way to create 3D and AR/VR experiences. This service as well is no longer accepting new customers and existing customer scenes will not be available after February 21, 2023.
- Amazon Deeplense: is a deep learning-enabled video camera that is developed by AWS. Earlier this year this has met its end-of-life and all projects and references to this service were marked for deletion per AWS FAQs Docs.
- Amazon SimpleDB: is a serverless NoSQL data store service that is now silently closed to new customers.
- Amazon Cloudsearch: is a managed search service forked out of Elasticsearch. This too is now not available.
- Amazon S3 Select: is a feature of S3 that lets you specify targeted portions of an S3 object to retrieve and return to you rather than returning the entire contents of the object. You can use some basic SQL expressions to select certain columns and filter for particular records in your structured file. This is no longer available to new customers, as per their official docs.
- AWS App Mesh: provides application-level networking so your services can communicate across multiple types of compute infrastructure. It is similar to Service Mesh like tools like Istio or Consul for Kubernetes. Apparently it's end of life is announced to be in the year 2026 as per the official docs.
AWS withdrawing from providing its own version of DevOps services is a surprise move. The hardest part of tech is keeping up with it's changing landscape and there is no escape route from it. Depending on your organizational constraints, we choose from self-managed services to managed to going serverless, but then there are surprises in operational complexities like this one, where by the vendor services are sunset. As an engineering leader, you shouldn't overlook it for short-term gratification and instead take proactive measures to do the due diligence in your choice of tools for adoption/migration and accommodate the plan of action in your product roadmap when you sit with your counterparts. I used the word "migration" above, because our bets do go wrong from time to time and it is important to communicate it to stakeholders concerned in the management of expectations of what can be chewed in the coming months.