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Amazon Pinpoint Ended October 30, 2026: What Stopped, What Keeps Working, and Where to Move

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October 26, 2026

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Pinpoint's engagement features (endpoints, segments, campaigns, journeys and analytics) stopped on October 30, 2026. SMS, voice, push and OTP sending keep working as AWS End User Messaging; email belongs on SES. What broke, what to check in your apps now, and the migration paths AWS recommends.

Amazon Pinpoint
AWS End User Messaging
Amazon SES
Amazon Connect
Migration

What stopped on October 30

AWS ended support for Amazon Pinpoint's engagement platform on October 30, 2026: the console and its resources (endpoints, segments, campaigns, journeys and analytics dashboards) are no longer available. Pinpoint stopped accepting new customers on May 20, 2025. The analytics and KPI APIs, in-app messaging, recommenders, SendUsersMessages and sending to a stored endpoint ID all stopped working.

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What keeps working

  • Push notifications and push templates, for all accounts.

  • One-time passwords (SendOTPMessage, VerifyOTPMessage) and phone number validation.

  • SMS, voice and email sending through SendMessages, for accounts that were already customers.

  • Event delivery to Kinesis and Firehose, and metrics to CloudWatch, for messages sent through the direct-send APIs.

Pinpoint's sending channels were renamed AWS End User Messaging in 2024, and that — together with Amazon SES for email — is where AWS says they live long term. New SMS or voice channels should be set up there, and new email sending on SES.

Where to move

If you used Pinpoint for

Move to

Segments, campaigns and journeys with customer profiles

Amazon Connect outbound campaigns and Customer Profiles

Transactional SMS, voice, push and OTP

AWS End User Messaging — the same APIs keep working

Email

Amazon SES, and Virtual Deliverability Manager for the deliverability dashboard

Event collection and mobile analytics

Amazon Kinesis, or a first-party analytics pipeline

In-app messaging

No direct AWS replacement — build it into your app, or use a third-party service

From AWS's Amazon Pinpoint end-of-support guide.

Connect's outbound campaigns suit agent-assisted, multi-channel engagement with segmentation and orchestration; End User Messaging with SES suits high-volume transactional sending with no agent involvement. Many products need only the second, which is the simpler migration: the sending APIs you already call keep working.

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