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Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by denysvitali » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 5:53 AM UTC

It's still fun how their proposed solution for using on-prem Bitbucket Server with CodePipeline works: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/integrating-codepipeline...

To me it looks like a huge hack (download your code as a zip file just to upload it to CodePipeline) rather than a solution - I'll not be surprised to discover other migtations to look similarly

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by paulddraper » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:00 AM UTC

upon_drumhead wrote: post #3

I once had high hopes Amazon would be able to build a real GitHub competitor. It's a real shame Amazon doesn't seem to be able to build anything that reaches beyond their walled garden.

Hope unjustified.

AWS can build low level solutions -- EC2, EBS, S3. High level stuff is garbage.

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by GardenLetter27 » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:06 AM UTC

It was never great anyway, although I wonder how they will handle some of the AWS stuff that would use it by default (automatically deploying private Lambdas, etc. IIRC).

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by gavindean90 » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:08 AM UTC

nunez wrote: post #6

upon_drumhead wrote: post #3

I once had high hopes Amazon would be able to build a real GitHub competitor. It's a real shame Amazon doesn't seem to be able to build anything that reaches beyond their walled garden.

I never NOT thought that CodeCommit and CodePipeline were box checks for strategic AWS customers

Can you describe more of what you mean

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by simonw » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:20 AM UTC

In writing this up - https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/30/aws-codecommit-quietly... - I found out about a much more significant deprecation: Amazon QLDB (Quantum Ledger Database - a blockchain-ish thing they launched in GA in 2019) is being hard-deprecated too! They're shutting it down completely on 31st July 2025, having announced the shutdown a few weeks ago (on July 18th).

QLDB shutdown announcement in the release notes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/qldb/latest/developerguide/docum...

Their blog post about how to rewrite QLDB apps to use Aurora PostgreSQL instead: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/migrate-an-amazon-qldb...

Hacker News discussion from when QLDB was first announced in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553387

I also found this handy community GitHub repo which tracks these breaking AWS changes and lets you subscribe to them via an Atom feed: https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by viccis » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:21 AM UTC

Not surprised. CodeCommit was released alongside a stable of other mediocre tools for CI/CD (CodePipeline and CodeDeploy if I recall correctly) that reflected the pinnacle of AWS's mid-to-late 2010s attitude, which is to find something popular and offer an incredibly mediocre alternative to it that will still be used by those teams who want to move as much as possible to AWS. Seems like that stalled out a bit, mostly due to it being so insanely bad that even the most dedicated AWS fanatics didn't bite. I feel like a lot of the recent stuff is just drop-in replacement AWS alternatives to popular tools (like Kafka and Cassandra) with outrageous price tags.

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by irjustin » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:27 AM UTC

I never did liked CodeCommit after testing it about 2 years ago. Just felt like an afterthought.

They better not touch CodePipeline and CodeDeploy though.

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by formerly_proven » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:34 AM UTC

simonw wrote: post #15

In writing this up - https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/30/aws-codecommit-quietly... - I found out about a much more significant deprecation: Amazon QLDB (Quantum Ledger Database - a blockchain-ish thing they launched in GA in 2019) is being hard-deprecated too! They're shutting it down completely on 31st July 2025, having announced the shutdown a few weeks ago (on July 18th). QLDB shutdown announcement in the releas…

> Their blog post about how to rewrite QLDB apps to use Aurora PostgreSQL instead

Straight callback to all the "you don't need a blockchain, you just need a database".

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by vasco » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:37 AM UTC

viccis wrote: post #16

Not surprised. CodeCommit was released alongside a stable of other mediocre tools for CI/CD (CodePipeline and CodeDeploy if I recall correctly) that reflected the pinnacle of AWS's mid-to-late 2010s attitude, which is to find something popular and offer an incredibly mediocre alternative to it that will still be used by those teams who want to move as much as possible to AWS. Seems like that stalled out a bit, mostly…

Doesn't it reflect more on the quality of the people involved? These tools came out at the same time as a bunch of other AWS tools that are still used. The platform itself, the company around these teams was the same, so why did Code Commit suck but other AWS products from the same vintage turned out great?

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by schoen » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:40 AM UTC

simonw wrote: post #15

In writing this up - https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/30/aws-codecommit-quietly... - I found out about a much more significant deprecation: Amazon QLDB (Quantum Ledger Database - a blockchain-ish thing they launched in GA in 2019) is being hard-deprecated too! They're shutting it down completely on 31st July 2025, having announced the shutdown a few weeks ago (on July 18th). QLDB shutdown announcement in the releas…

Is this particular blockchain permissioned in such a way that users couldn't continue operating it outside of Amazon?