<story><title>Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-classic-is-retiring-heres-how-to-prepare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slownews45</author><text>Holy crap - is this one of the first actual depreciation and get off service things AWS has done?&lt;p&gt;Kind of crazy honestly? They were kind of famous for NOT doing this sort of thing - at all.&lt;p&gt;GCP just announced enterprise API&amp;#x27;s I see with some (pretty vague) promises about longevity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsjohnst</author><text>EC2 Classic was essentially deprecated back in 2013, whether it was said as such at the time or not. 8+ years is an incredibly long sunset period, especially compared to AWS’s competitors.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-classic-is-retiring-heres-how-to-prepare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slownews45</author><text>Holy crap - is this one of the first actual depreciation and get off service things AWS has done?&lt;p&gt;Kind of crazy honestly? They were kind of famous for NOT doing this sort of thing - at all.&lt;p&gt;GCP just announced enterprise API&amp;#x27;s I see with some (pretty vague) promises about longevity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>You’re generally right but it’s definitely not a hard rule.&lt;p&gt;Amazon&amp;#x2F;AWS has deprecated and then put to the grave multiple payment services. I made that same comment when SimpleDB was deprecated and someone said the same thing. More recently, torrent support in S3 is being killed off with little notice.</text></comment>