“AWS Deprecates Two Dozen Services (Most of Which You’ve Never Heard Of)”

🪓 What Got Cut

AWS recently deprecated 24 services:

• 19 moved to “maintenance mode”

• 4 are being sunset (usage ends soon)

• 1 is fully end-of-life

Some notable names:

• Amazon Glacier: Not really dead — just its standalone API. It now lives as an S3 storage class.

• S3 Object Lambda: Rarely used and now officially sidelined.

• CodeCatalyst: Launched with fanfare, then vanished into obscurity.

• Snowball Edge: Still usable, but not recommended for new architectures.

🧠 The Real Message

Corey argues that most of these services were either:

• Too niche to gain traction

• Rebranded into newer AWS offerings (like AWS Transform)

• Superseded by better third-party tools

He likens the cleanup to “Googling” — launching too many services, then quietly killing the ones that don’t stick.

🤡 Satirical Highlights

• “Cloud Directory” sounds important… until you realize no one ever used it.

• Systems Manager tools are being replaced by “other Systems Manager tools with equally bad names.”

• IoT Greengrass v1 is deprecated, but if it’s still running in the field, “keep on going, I guess?”

🧹 Bottom Line

This isn’t a crisis — it’s overdue housekeeping. AWS is finally pruning its overgrown service catalog, which might actually help customers focus on what matters.