Re:Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring
by jsjohnst on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @07:25PM
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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.
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I know what you mean, but I don’t think it counts as a sunset period if they haven’t announced anything.
yeah, it's not technically a sunset period if they haven't announced the service will be ending. but they've been sending some pretty strong clues - afaik you haven't been able to create new EC2 classic instances for many years now.
From Jeff's blog post:
> All AWS accounts created after December 4, 2013 are already VPC-only, unless EC2-Classic was enabled as a result of a support request.
There were announcements made at the time, but I don't remember if they explicitly called it a deprecated product at the time (hence why I hedged my wording in GP comment).