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Every AWS Service Retiring in 2026 and 2027, and What to Move To

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October 26, 2026

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Amazon Pinpoint ended on October 30, 2026, and App Mesh, Proton, WAF Classic and Greengrass V1 before it. Q Developer's IDE plugins, WorkMail, DevOps Guru and Infrastructure Composer end in 2027, and App Runner, Audit Manager, CloudTrail Lake, Kendra, Q Business and the original Bedrock Agents are closed to new customers. The full list from AWS's lifecycle pages, with the replacements AWS names.

AWS
Deprecations
End of support
2027
Migration

How AWS retires a service

AWS publishes three stages in its General Reference. Maintenance: no new customers, no new features, existing customers carry on. Sunset: an end-of-support date is set, typically about twelve months out, and customers should migrate. Full shutdown: the service is gone. A service can sit in maintenance for years, Cloud9 and S3 Select have since July 2024, so maintenance is a signal to stop building on something, not necessarily a deadline.

Ending soon or already ended (sunset)

Service

End of support

Move to

AWS App Mesh

September 30, 2026

ECS Service Connect (AWS's published path); Istio or Linkerd on EKS

AWS Proton

October 7, 2026

See AWS's Proton migration guide

AWS WAF Classic

October 7, 2026

AWS WAF

AWS IoT Greengrass V1

October 7, 2026

AWS IoT Greengrass V2

Amazon Lookout for Equipment

October 7, 2026

See AWS's alternatives guide

Amazon Pinpoint (engagement features)

October 30, 2026

Amazon Connect outbound campaigns and Customer Profiles; SES for email; SMS and push continue as AWS End User Messaging

RDS Custom for Oracle

March 31, 2027

See AWS's availability guide

Amazon WorkMail

March 31, 2027

See AWS's availability guide

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client

March 31, 2027

See AWS's availability guide

AWS Service Management Connector

March 31, 2027

See AWS's availability guide

Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins and paid subscriptions

April 30, 2027

Kiro (AWS's recommendation)

Amazon WorkSpaces PCoIP and WorkSpaces Pool

June 30, 2027

See AWS's end-of-support guides

AWS Managed Services (AMS) Advanced

June 30, 2027

See AWS's sunset plan

AWS re:Post Private; SageMaker AI Profiler

June 30, 2027

See AWS's guides

Amazon DevOps Guru

September 29, 2027

See AWS's end-of-support guide

Amazon Managed Blockchain

September 29, 2027

See AWS's end-of-support guide

AWS Infrastructure Composer

September 29, 2027

See AWS's availability guide

From "Services in Sunset" in the AWS General Reference, October 2026.

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Already shut down in 2026

Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL (January 27); AWS SimSpace Weaver and Chime SDK Proxy Sessions (March 31); AWS IQ, AWS IoT Events, AWS Panorama, Amazon Inspector Classic, Amazon Connect Customer Voice ID and DMS Fleet Advisor (May 20); SageMaker Ground Truth Plus and two Chime SDK and Elemental features (June 30); Amazon Mechanical Turk (September 29); and Amazon FinSpace (October 7). Anything still pointing at these has been failing since.

Closed to new customers (maintenance)

Since

Services

July 2024

AWS Cloud9 (move to IDE toolkits or CloudShell), Amazon CloudSearch (to OpenSearch Service), S3 Select and S3 Glacier Select, Amazon Forecast

2025

Timestream for LiveAnalytics (to Timestream for InfluxDB), CodeCatalyst, CodeGuru Reviewer, Migration Hub, S3 Object Lambda, Systems Manager Incident Manager and Change Manager, Fraud Detector, Application Discovery Service

March 31, 2026

AWS App Runner (to ECS Express Mode), AWS Audit Manager, CloudTrail Lake, Glue Ray jobs, IoT FleetWise

June 30, 2026

Bedrock Agents Classic (to Bedrock AgentCore), Amazon Kendra, Amazon Q Business, Cognito Sync, Directory Service Simple AD, IoT Device Defender Detect, several SageMaker AI features

September 29, 2026

WorkSpaces Secure Browser, Chime SDK SIP Media Application

From "Services in Maintenance" in the AWS General Reference, October 2026. Not a complete list of every feature.

What to do with this list

  1. Search your infrastructure code and your bill for every service above. Cost Explorer grouped by service is the fastest inventory.

  2. For anything in sunset, put the end date and an owner on a calendar now.

  3. For anything in maintenance, stop building new things on it, and plan the move at your own pace.

  4. Re-check these pages each quarter — AWS has been announcing changes in batches several times a year.

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