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AWS CodeCommit quietly deprecated (via) CodeCommit is AWS's Git hosting service. In a reply from an AWS employee to this forum thread:

Beginning on 06 June 2024, AWS CodeCommit ceased onboarding new customers. Going forward, only customers who have an existing repository in AWS CodeCommit will be able to create additional repositories.

[...] If you would like to use AWS CodeCommit in a new AWS account that is part of your AWS Organization, please let us know so that we can evaluate the request for allowlisting the new account. If you would like to use an alternative to AWS CodeCommit given this news, we recommend using GitLab, GitHub, or another third party source provider of your choice.

What's weird about this is that, as far as I can tell, this is the first official public acknowledgement from AWS that CodeCommit is no longer accepting customers. The CodeCommit landing page continues to promote the product, though it does link to the How to migrate your AWS CodeCommit repository to another Git provider blog post from July 25th, which gives no direct indication that CodeCommit is being quietly sunset.

I wonder how long they'll continue to support their existing customers?

Amazon QLDB too

It looks like AWS may be having a bit of a clear-out. Amazon QLDB - Quantum Ledger Database (a blockchain-adjacent immutable ledger, launched in 2019) - quietly put out a deprecation announcement in their release history on July 18th (again, no official announcement elsewhere):

End of support notice: Existing customers will be able to use Amazon QLDB until end of support on 07/31/2025. For more details, see Migrate an Amazon QLDB Ledger to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.

This one is more surprising, because migrating to a different Git host is massively less work than entirely re-writing a system to use a fundamentally different database.

It turns out there's an infrequently updated community GitHub repo called SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes which tracks these kinds of changes. Other services listed there include CodeStar, Cloud9, CloudSearch, OpsWorks, Workdocs and Snowmobile, and they cleverly (ab)use the GitHub releases mechanism to provide an Atom feed.