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Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

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Re: Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

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Post by juliansimioni »

As someone who first used AWS in mid-2009 (just a few weeks before VPCs were announced!), but hasn't used an EC2 Classic enabled AWS account now since around 2012, it's hard to remember just how far the service has come.

There were only a few instance types, and they were all slow and small (by todays standards). Everyone's EC2 instances were mostly publicly pingable/ssh-able from the internet. EBS was horribly horribly slow (our DBAs set up a super convoluted RAID 0+1 configuration for our MySQL databases and even then we needed massive sharding to keep up with growth). EC2 instances were, in general, very unreliable (I recall something like 1 in 500 instances failing _per week_), and especially so in the leadup to Christmas (where the rumor was AWS kept the best instances for themselves).

This is pretty much the first time I've heard of AWS really deprecating something, so I have a feeling it will _hugely_ simplify things on their end. From reading the post I also get the idea that it won't be _that_ hard of an operation from their side. I bet few people (by AWS standards) are still using EC2 classic heavily.

Re: Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

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Post by jedberg »

juliansimioni wrote: post #2

As someone who first used AWS in mid-2009 (just a few weeks before VPCs were announced!), but hasn't used an EC2 Classic enabled AWS account now since around 2012, it's hard to remember just how far the service has come. There were only a few instance types, and they were all slow and small (by todays standards). Everyone's EC2 instances were mostly publicly pingable/ssh-able from the internet. EBS was horribly horri…

> This is pretty much the first time I've heard of AWS really deprecating something,

I think the only other service that was ever deprecated was SimpleDB, which was replaced with DynamoDB.

Re: Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

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Post by slownews45 »

Holy crap - is this one of the first actual depreciation and get off service things AWS has done?

Kind of crazy honestly? They were kind of famous for NOT doing this sort of thing - at all.

GCP just announced enterprise API's I see with some (pretty vague) promises about longevity.

Re: Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

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Post by mikeocool »

jedberg wrote: post #4
juliansimioni wrote: post #2

As someone who first used AWS in mid-2009 (just a few weeks before VPCs were announced!), but hasn't used an EC2 Classic enabled AWS account now since around 2012, it's hard to remember just how far the service has come. There were only a few instance types, and they were all slow and small (by todays standards). Everyone's EC2 instances were mostly publicly pingable/ssh-able from the internet. EBS was horribly horri…

> This is pretty much the first time I've heard of AWS really deprecating something, I think the only other service that was ever deprecated was SimpleDB, which was replaced with DynamoDB.

You can actually still use SimpleDB: https://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/

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Post by ComputerGuru »

juliansimioni wrote: post #2

As someone who first used AWS in mid-2009 (just a few weeks before VPCs were announced!), but hasn't used an EC2 Classic enabled AWS account now since around 2012, it's hard to remember just how far the service has come. There were only a few instance types, and they were all slow and small (by todays standards). Everyone's EC2 instances were mostly publicly pingable/ssh-able from the internet. EBS was horribly horri…

> This is pretty much the first time I've heard of AWS really deprecating something

Amazon has deprecated and then put to the grave multiple payment services. Torrent support in S3 is being killed off with little notice.

Re: Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

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Post by ComputerGuru »

slownews45 wrote: post #5

Holy crap - is this one of the first actual depreciation and get off service things AWS has done? Kind of crazy honestly? They were kind of famous for NOT doing this sort of thing - at all. GCP just announced enterprise API's I see with some (pretty vague) promises about longevity.

You’re generally right but it’s definitely not a hard rule.

Amazon/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.

Re: Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

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Post by paulddraper »

slownews45 wrote: post #5

Holy crap - is this one of the first actual depreciation and get off service things AWS has done? Kind of crazy honestly? They were kind of famous for NOT doing this sort of thing - at all. GCP just announced enterprise API's I see with some (pretty vague) promises about longevity.

To be fair, this was over a decade in the making.
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