AWS breaking changes and price increases
Atom feedThis list serves to document the fairly rare changes that break applications or raise prices on AWS or where AWS has shutdown a service.
My goal is to only document issues that would break people's existing applications. So if you have a running app on AWS that makes use of some AWS API calls, what are changes AWS is making that require you to change your code, reconfigure, rebuild, or redeploy your application? Can it live forever as long as your credit card works, or is AWS potentially breaking something?
Any change has the potential to break something somewhere (xkcd.com/1172/), but these seem like the more impactful changes for those that use the impacted service. These items will stay in this list until about a month after they have gone into effect, at which point they'll be moved to the archive.
This list will also keep track of increases in prices. This will not track changes in pricing models.
| Date taking effect | Date announced | Service | Change | How to check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 6(?), 2024 | Unknown | Snowmobile | All references to the AWS Snowmobile service have been scrubbed from the docs. This has occured at some point between Feb 27, 2024 and April 6, 2024. This service appears to have been silently deprecated. | |
| April 24(?), 2024 | Unknown | Workdocs | The documentation now states new users cannot sign up, and emails were sent to customers informing them that their data will be deleted on April 26, 2025 (link) | |
| May 5, 2024 | May 10, 2023 | OpsWorks | OpsWorks for Chef Automate will no longer be able to be used (link) | |
| May 9, 2024 | May 9, 2024 | Cognito | Price increase where machine-to-machine Cognito went from being free to being charged. (link) | |
| May 26, 2024 | May 25, 2023 | OpsWorks | OpsWorks Stacks will no longer be able to be used (link) | |
| June 6, 2024 | July 30, 2024 | CodeCommit | CodeCommit stopped being available to new accounts without announcement, but still works for existing customers. (link) Later announced as discontinued for new customers. (link) | |
| July 11, 2024 | N/A | ECS | Container image references forcibly resolved to digests, making it impossible to use mutable tags such as "latest". (awaiting solution) | |
| July 22, 2024 | N/A | Mobile Hub | Mobile Hub removed from the SDK. (link | |
| July 29(?), 2024 | July 30, 2024 | CloudSearch | Access discontinued for new customers (link) | |
| July 29(?), 2024 | July 30, 2024 | Cloud9 | Access discontinued for new customers (link) | |
| July 30(?), 2024 | July 30, 2024 | SimpleDB | Access discontinued for new customers (link) | |
| July 30(?), 2024 | July 30, 2024 | S3 Select | Access discontinued for new customers (link) | |
| July 30(?), 2024 | July 30, 2024 | Forecast | Access discontinued for new customers (link) | |
| July 30(?), 2024 | July 30, 2024 | Data Pipeline | Access discontinued for new customers (link) | |
| July 31, 2024 | July 31, 2023 | CodeStar | AWS CodeStar is being deprecated. Existing resources will be unaffected, but you will not be able to create new resources with it. (link) | |
| September 24, 2024 | September 24, 2024 | App Mesh | Access discontinued for new customers. (link) | |
| September 30, 2024 | November 22, 2023 | Application Cost Profiler (ACP) | AWS Application Cost Profiler (ACP) will be discontinued (link) | |
| October 1, 2024 | October 20, 2021 | EC2 Auto Scaling Launch Configurations | Through a series of deprecations spanning multiple years, AWS is slowly killing off EC2 Auto Scaling Launch Configurations in favor of EC2 Launch Templates. On October 1, 2024, only those accounts that have previously used Launch Configurations can continue to do so. A final deprecation has not yet been announced. (link) (Original soft deprecation) | |
| October 9, 2024 | October 9, 2024 | Lookout for Metrics | Lookout for Metrics is no longer be open to new customers (link) | |
| October 10, 2024 | October 10, 2024 | Lookout for Vision | Lookout for Vision is no longer be open to new customers (link) | |
| October 17, 2024 | September 17, 2024 | Lookout for Equipment | Lookout for Equipment will no longer be open to new customers (link) | |
| October 17, 2024 | October 17, 2024 | IoT Device Management Fleet Hub | IoT Device Management Fleet Hub will no longer be open to new customers (link) | |
| October 17, 2024 | October 17, 2024 | CloudWatch Evidently | CloudWatch Evidently states "Active customers will be able to use the service" which seems to imply is not available to new customers. Active customers have until October 17, 2025. (link) | |
| October 24, 2024 | October 24, 2024 | Rekognition | Rekognition people pathing is no longer be open to new customers (link) | |
| October 24, 2024 | October 24, 2024 | Nimble | Nimble is no longer be open to new customers and has been removed from the SDK (link) | |
| October 28, 2024 | September 26, 2024 | Amazon FSx File Gateway | Amazon FSx File Gateway will no longer be open to new customers (link) | |
| October 31, 2024 | October 1, 2024 | Monitron | Monitron will no longer be open to new customers (link) | |
| November 12, 2024 | November 12, 2024 | Snowball | Previous Snowball generations discontinued. Snowcone discontinued. (link) | |
| November 29, 2024 | Unknown | Finspace | FinSpace Dataset Browser will be discontinued (link) | |
| November 30, 2024 | Unknown | CloudEndure Migration | CloudEndure Migration will no longer be available (link) | |
| December 16, 2024 | Unknown | IoT 1-Click | AWS IoT 1-Click service will be discontinued (link) | |
| December 31, 2024 | December 28, 2023 | Aurora Serverless v1 | Aurora Serverless will be automatically upgraded to v2, which has some significant differences, such as not scaling down to zero. (link) | |
| December 31, 2024 | October 2, 2024 | Lake Formation | Lake Formation’s Governed Tables can no longer be created or modified (link) | |
| January 1, 2025 | October 29, 2024 | EC2 | EC2 G3 instance family types can no longer be started. (link) | |
| March 31, 2025 | September 13, 2024 | Lex V1 | No new resources can be created in Lex V1 on March 31, 2025, and on September 15, 2025 any requests will fail. (link) | |
| July 31, 2025 | July 18, 2024 | QLDB | QLDB to be deprecated on July 31, 2025. (link) | |
| September 17, 2025 | September 17, 2024 | DeepComposer | DeepComposer will no longer be accessible on September 17, 2025 (link) | |
| September 25, 2025 | September 24, 2024 | NICE EnginFrame | NICE EnginFrame will no longer be accessible to new users (link) | |
| October 15, 2025 | October 17, 2024 | Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL | Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL will no longer allow new applications. All data will be deleted on January 27, 2026. (link) | |
| November 13, 2025 | November 13, 2024 | MediaStore | MediaStore will no longer be accessible. (link) | |
| November 13, 2025 | November 12, 2024 | Elastic Transcoder | Elastic Transcoder will no longer be accessible. (link) | |
| November 17, 2025 | November 12, 2024 | Application Discovery | Application Discovery Service Discovery Connector will no longer be accessible. (link) | |
| December (?), 2025 | August 29, 2024 | Deepracer | Deepracer to be open-sourced and no longer exist as a service. (link) |
Services that are deprecated without dates for degradation:
- Cognito Sync: Documentation advises not to use it. (link
AWS support calendars for third-party products
Services such as Lambda and RDS provide managed hosting for third-party products that have their own lifecycle.
AWS already publishes the support calendar for those products.
If you use one of these services and need to know when AWS will stop supporting your current version you can consult its calendar directly.
- Amazon Linux Release Cadence
- Elasticache Redis supported versions
- Elasticache Memcached suppported versions
- EKS Kubernetes release calendar
- Lambda supported runtimes (major versions for all languages)
- Lambda runtime updates (info to control patch versions)
- OpenSearch Service: Supported versions of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch
- RDS Aurora Versions
- RDS Db2 Versions
- RDS MariaDB Versions
- RDS MySQL Versions
- RDS Oracle Release Notes
- RDS SQL Server Versions