Updated May 29 8:55am BST with statement from AWS.

AWS is getting rid of another ten underused or outdated services, including the original version of a vulnerability management tool – but a change in how it communicates this has some developers celebrating its improved transparency.

Amazon revealed it would be ending support for nine services over the next 17 months and halting new customers for another, as it launched its new Product Lifecycle page collating a list of services it is ending support for in one place.

The list of newly end-of-life services includes AWS IQ, an underused Upwork-style platform for contracting AWS ‘experts’ for a project; AWS IoT Events, a service to monitor IoT equipment operations; and AWS Panorama, an appliance and SDK for adding computer vision to an on-premise camera network.

The full list of services

AWS Pinpoint - Support ending 30 Oct 2026

AWS IQ - Support ending 28 May 2026

AWS IoT Analytics - Support ending 15 Dec 2025

AWS IoT Events - Support ending 20 May 2026

AWS SimSpace Weaver - Support ending 20 May 2026

AWS Panorama - Support ending 31 May 2026

Amazon Inspector Classic - Support ending 20 May 2026

Amazon Connect Voice ID - Support ending 20 May 2026

AWS DMS Fleet Advisor - Support ending 20 May 2026

Support for Amazon Inspector Classic will also be dropped by the company after 20 May 2026, as it encourages customers to move to the newer version of the vulnerability management service, bringing the original service to a close ten years after it first launched.

Meanwhile, AWS also revealed Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics would be closed to new customers from 20 June 2025 and encouraged users to migrate to Timestream for InfluxDB, indicating its end may be nigh though it pledged to continue investing in its security and availability.

See also: AWS Transform: AI go "brrrrrr" to help ditch VMware! Ditch .NET apps! Ditch mainframes!

The new Product Lifecycle page brings together announcements and migration advice to address what was previously a complicated and confusing process that saw service cancellation announcements drip fed across multiple blogs.

The process received much criticism from developers for making it harder for users to keep track and get ahead of necessary transitions, particularly as deprecations appeared to increase under AWS CEO Matt Garman. As The Stack reported last year, a decentralised dripfeed of deprecations that were not necessarily publicly announced had been dubbed "chaos and a bad look for AWS."

AWS commentator Corey Quinn, aka Quinnypig, praised the “great change” and said: “When you’re constantly killing services, you make customers nervous that the things they rely upon are potentially next. … When you instead batch them up and provide clear rationales and transition plans, it builds confidence.”

While the page currently details the ten newly announced service changes, and lists AWS Private 5G and DataSync Discovery as no longer accessible, it is yet to add previously announced deprecations but told The Stack it was considering doing so.

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