AWS Announces Service Lifecycle Changes: Multiple Services Moving to Maintenance, Sunset, or End of Support
Key Takeaways
- ▸Five AWS services and features are moving to maintenance status on April 30, 2026, restricting access to new customers while maintaining support for existing users
- ▸Three services are entering sunset phases with defined timelines for complete discontinuation
- ▸AWS has provided migration guides and support resources to help customers transition to alternative services
Summary
Amazon Web Services has announced significant lifecycle changes affecting multiple services and features across its platform. Starting April 30, 2026, five services and features will transition to maintenance status, meaning they will no longer be available to new customers, though existing users can continue using them with ongoing AWS support. These include Amazon Application Recovery Controller's Readiness Check feature, Amazon Comprehend's Topic Modeling and Event Detection capabilities, Amazon Rekognition's Streaming Events and content moderation features, SNS Message Data Protection, and AWS Glue's Ray Jobs feature.
Additionally, three services are entering sunset phases with defined end-of-life dates: Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, and AWS Service Management Connector. The Amazon Chime SDK's Proxy Sessions feature has already reached end of support as of March 31, 2026. AWS has emphasized that affected customers should review comprehensive migration guides available on the AWS Product Lifecycle Page and work with support teams to transition to alternative services.
- Amazon Chime SDK's Proxy Sessions feature has already reached end of support
