This post was contributed by Charlie Chuang, Madhu Vellakal, and Charunethran Panchalam Govindarajan. Since launching Research and Engineering Studio on AWS (RES), we have helped customers stand up self-service portals for research, engineering, and technical computing on AWS. As this space has matured, with a strong ecosystem of AWS Partners and complementary AWS services, we [...]

This post provides a decision framework and technical guidance to help database administrators and architects navigate the transition facing Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers who run workloads on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle.

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 reaches its end of extended support on July 14, 2026. If you run it on Amazon RDS for SQL Server with user-defined CLR assemblies, you must replace them before you upgrade, because CLR is not supported on SQL Server 2017 and later. This post shows you how to find your CLR dependencies and compares four replacement strategies.

Today, we’re announcing that AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) will discontinue support for email-validated public certificates by September 30, 2027. If you use email validation for your ACM public certificates, you need to migrate to DNS validation before that date. This change aligns with the Certification Authority/Browser (CA/B) Forum’s industry-wide deprecation of email-based domain validation and [...]

A couple of editions ago I wrote about what I find so energizing about working with startups. Last week I got a fresh dose of it: I spent a few days with the AWS Startups team, listening to stories of founders talking about the problems they’re actually solving. One story that stayed with me came [...]

Platform migrations are technical events with real customer experience consequences. With Amazon Pinpoint reaching end of support on October 30, 2026, teams managing millions of customer touchpoints face an architectural question: where do we go, and how do we bring everything we’ve built with us? The migration isn’t simple. Data has dependencies. Capabilities overlap in [...]

As previously announced, version 3 of the AWS SDK for .NET entered maintenance mode on March 1, 2026. In alignment with our SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, AWS SDK for .NET V3 has now reached end-of-support as of June 1, 2026. Starting June 1, 2026, there are no plans for further updates or releases for V3, including security fixes. [...]

As previously announced, version 4 of the AWS Tools for PowerShell entered maintenance mode on March 1, 2026. In accordance with our SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, AWS Tools for PowerShell V4 has now reached end-of-support as of June 1, 2026. Starting June 1, 2026, there are no plans for further updates or releases for V4, including security fixes. Previously published releases should continue [...]

Starting on June 10th, 2026, Bitnami container images will no longer be available on Amazon ECR Public Gallery. If you currently pull Bitnami images directly from ECR Public in your workloads, you need to take action before this date to avoid service disruption. In this post, we walk you through how to determine if you’re affected, how to mirror the images you need to your own private registry, and best practices for protecting your workloads from future upstream changes.

This post is part of a two-part series on upgrading RDS for MySQL 8.0 to 8.4. Here, we cover the end of standard support timeline, extended support costs, upgrade methods, and key best practices. For a step-by-step implementation guide, see Best practices for upgrading RDS for MySQL 8.0 to 8.4 with prechecks, Blue/Green, and rollback.

When we launched Amazon Q Developer, our goal was to bring AI assistance directly into the developer workflow. Customers adopted Q Developer across VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Visual Studio, using it for code generation, debugging, and chat-based guidance. Q Developer proved that AI belongs in the inner loop of software development. Over the past [...]

The Kubernetes SIG Network and Security Response Committee has announced that Ingress NGINX will be retired in March 2026. If your organization runs workloads on Kubernetes — whether on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), self-managed clusters on EC2, or hybrid environments — this upcoming change requires immediate planning and attention. This change impacts approximately [...]

In this post, we share insights from one of our customers’ migration from DC2 to RA3 instances. The customer, a large enterprise in the retail industry, operated a 16-node dc2.8xlarge cluster for business intelligence (BI) and ETL workloads. Facing growing data volumes and disk capacity limitations, they successfully migrated to RA3 instances using a Blue-Green deployment approach, achieving improved ETL query performance and expanded storage capacity while maintaining cost efficiency.

We are announcing that AWS Copilot CLI will reach end of support on June 12, 2026. Copilot simplified building, releasing, and operating production-ready containerized applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) or AWS App Runner by providing a command-line interface (CLI) tool. While AWS Copilot CLI will continue to be available as an open-source project on GitHub, it will no longer receive new features or security updates from AWS.

In alignment with our previous announcement in August 2025 and SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, version 4 of the AWS Tools for PowerShell (AWS Tools for PowerShell v4.x) will enter maintenance mode on March 1, 2026 and reach end-of-support on June 1, 2026.

In this post, I’ll show you how to migrate your containerized applications from AWS App Runner to Amazon ECS Express Mode using a blue/green deployment strategy. This approach helps to eliminate downtime during the migration, allowing you to shift traffic gradually and roll back if needed. You’ll learn how to set up ECS Express Mode and configure custom domain.

In alignment with our SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, version 1 of the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI v1) will enter maintenance mode on July 15, 2026 and reach end-of-support on July 15, 2027.

This post is about AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 announcing end of support for Node.js versions based on Node.js release schedule, and it is not about AWS Lambda. For the latter, refer to the Lambda runtime deprecation policy. In the second week of January 2026, the AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 (JS SDK) will start [...]

In this post, we demonstrate how to migrate computer vision workloads from Amazon Lookout for Vision to Amazon SageMaker AI by training custom defect detection models using pre-trained models available on AWS Marketplace. We provide step-by-step guidance on labeling datasets with SageMaker Ground Truth, training models with flexible hyperparameter configurations, and deploying them for real-time or batch inference—giving you greater control and flexibility for automated quality inspection use cases.

The SDKs and Daemon for AWS X-Ray will enter maintenance mode on February 25, 2026 and reach end-of-support on February 25, 2027. Guidance for migrating to OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation solutions allows you to continue producing traces for your applications within AWS. Existing applications that use X-Ray SDKs and Daemon for AWS X-Ray will continue to function [...]

In this post, we guide you through the process of migrating from AWS App Mesh to Amazon VPC Lattice, highlighting key considerations and benefits that this transition offers for your cloud infrastructure. We demonstrate how to migrate an IT Inventory Management System application from AWS App Mesh to VPC Lattice using Amazon ECS, with detailed steps for creating VPC Lattice resources, updating task definitions, and implementing blue/green deployment strategies.

We are announcing the end-of-support for the AWS SDK for .NET v3.x starting on March 1, 2026, in accordance with the SDK and Tools maintenance policy. On April 28, 2025, the next major version of the AWS SDK for .NET, version 4.x, became generally available (blog post). Version 4.x of the SDK includes bug fixes, [...]

We are announcing the end-of-support for the AWS Tools for PowerShell v4.x starting on March 1, 2026, in accordance with the SDK and Tools maintenance policy. On June 23, 2025, the next major version of the AWS Tools for PowerShell, version 5.x, became generally available (blog post). Version 5.x of the AWS Tools for PowerShell [...]

On November 30th, 2025, the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) will no longer support Node.js 18.x, which reached end of life on April 30, 2025. This change applies to all AWS CDK components that depend on Node.js, including the AWS CDK CLI, the Construct Library, and broader CDK ecosystem projects such as JSII, Projen, and [...]

The Amazon Redshift integration with AWS Lambda provides the capability to create Amazon Redshift Lambda user-defined functions (UDFs). Because Lambda UDFs provide these significant advantages in integration, flexibility, scalability, and security, we will be ending support for Python UDFs in Amazon Redshift. In this post, we walk you through how to migrate your existing Python UDFs to Lambda UDFs, set up monitoring and cost evaluations, and review key considerations for a smooth transition.

Starting July 14, 2025, the AWS DeepRacer Student Portal will enter a maintenance phase where new registrations will be disabled. Until September 15, 2025, existing users will retain full access to their content and training materials, with updates limited to critical security fixes, after which the portal will no longer be available.

Audio editing and transcoding are crucial processes for content creators, broadcasters, and media professionals who need to convert audio files from one format to another and automate basic audio editing tasks. With Amazon Elastic Transcoder scheduled for deprecation, in November, 2025, it is important to understand the alternatives for implementing audio-only workflows in Amazon Web [...]

Today, we’re introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page, a centralized resource that provides comprehensive information about service availability changes across AWS. The new AWS Product Lifecycle page consolidates all service availability information in one convenient location. This dedicated resource offers detailed visibility into three key categories of changes: 1) services closing access to new customers, [...]

On August 20, 2024, we announced the general availability of the new AWS CloudHSM instance type hsm2m.medium (hsm2). This new type comes with additional features compared to the previous AWS CloudHSM instance type, hsm1.medium (hsm1), such as support for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 Level 3, the ability to run clusters in non-FIPS mode, [...]

We are announcing the deprecation of the AWS DynamoDB Session State Provider for .NET. Support for this library will continue for the next six months and will officially end on November 14, 2025. After that date, we will no longer publish updates to the library, including security or critical bug fixes. Previously published releases will [...]

Introduction: AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code and provisioning it through AWS CloudFormation. As of June 1, 2023, AWS CDK version 1 is no longer supported. To avoid the potential issues that come with using an outdated version and to take advantage of [...]

Effective June 2, 2025, AWS SDK for Ruby Version 3 will no longer support following end-of-life (EOL) Ruby runtime versions: Ruby 2.5 (EOL began on 2021-04-05) Ruby 2.6 (EOL began on 2022-04-12) To ensure your applications and services remain secure, we strongly encourage you to upgrade to Ruby 2.7 or later. Moving forward, AWS SDK [...]

Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL) 1.x and Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) 0.x will reach end-of-support on January 30, 2026. Accordingly, these versions will enter maintenance mode on April 17, 2025. During maintenance mode, AWS will provide updates only for critical bug fixes and security issues. Major versions in maintenance mode will not receive updates for new features or feature enhancements.

On May 30th, 2025, the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) will no longer support Node.js 14.x and 16.x, which reached end of life on 4/30/2023 (14.x) and 9/11/2023 (16.x). This change applies to all AWS CDK components that depend on Node.js, including the AWS CDK CLI, the Construct Library, and broader CDK ecosystem projects such [...]

Standard support for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL version 12 will conclude on February 28, 2025. For continued support and optimal performance, it’s crucial to plan your database upgrades. Refer to the official announcements for Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL for detailed guidance on upgrading [...]

Amazon Chime is a communications service that lets you meet, chat, and place business calls inside and outside your organization, all using a single application. After careful consideration, we have decided to end support for the Amazon Chime service, including Business Calling features, effective February 20, 2026. Amazon Chime will no longer accept new customers [...]

AWS announces important configuration updates coming July 31st, 2025, affecting AWS SDKs and CLIs default settings. Two key changes include switching the AWS Security Token Service (STS) endpoint to regional and updating the default retry strategy to standard. These updates aim to improve service availability and reliability by implementing regional endpoints to reduce cross-regional dependencies and introducing token-bucket throttling for standardized retry behavior. Organizations should test their applications before the release date and can opt-in early or temporarily opt-out of these changes. These updates align with AWS best practices for optimal service performance and security.

As media content continues to grow in complexity and volume, many organizations find themselves seeking more scalable and cost-effective transcoding solutions. To combat these challenges consider Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental MediaConvert (MediaConvert), a powerful service that addresses the evolving needs of video processing professionals. If you’re currently using Amazon Elastic Transcoder (Elastic Transcoder), you’ll [...]

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to end support for AWS Application Discovery Service Discovery Connector (Discovery Connector) effective November 17, 2025. This decision was made to enable focus on the new on-premises discovery tool AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector (Agentless Collector). This decision stems from customer preference to use agentless collection for [...]