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Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by arianvanp » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:44 AM UTC

formerly_proven wrote: post #18

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".

It wasn't a blockchain per se. It basically was Amazon's Version of Rich Hickey's Datomic and them pointing people to Aurora for Migration is a bit of a joke. It's a completely different product.

QLDB is an immutable database with allowing you to move back and forward in history and do live streaming of events etc with cryptographic verification built in.

You _can_ set up Postgres like this but it's a lot of hoops and not very user friendly (some monstrosity involving DMS, Kinesis Firehose and what not).

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by teractiveodular » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:45 AM UTC

gavindean90 wrote: post #14

nunez wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Can you describe more of what you mean

A lot of cloud providers release hastily built and generally cruddy services whose sole purpose in life is to satisfy the question "does your cloud have X" when customers are doing does-it-tick-the-box comparisons across clouds.

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by rgblambda » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:45 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…

>be used by those teams who want to move as much as possible to AWS

By teams that have been mandated to move as much as possible to AWS by their company's senior leadership, because it simplified accounts/they negotiated a "great contract" etc.

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by gonzo41 » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:54 AM UTC

paulddraper wrote: post #12

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.

Everyone's and I mean everyone's high level stuff is garbage. Remember when Lotus Notes was the peak. The only thing constant is change etc.

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by hocuspocus » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:58 AM UTC

rgblambda wrote: post #23

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…

>be used by those teams who want to move as much as possible to AWS By teams that have been mandated to move as much as possible to AWS by their company's senior leadership, because it simplified accounts/they negotiated a "great contract" etc.

Funnily enough when my infra team talked to AWS solution architects about this topic, it seems they were very upfront: don't touch CodeCommit, AWS/Amazon teams mostly use GitLab internally. And we do have a partnership plus discounts conditional to minimum usage volumes.

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by simonw » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:58 AM UTC

schoen wrote: post #20

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?

Yes. As far as I can tell it's effectively an immutable ledger, a bit like a Git repository with signed commits. No proof of work or similar.

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by blackeyeblitzar » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 6:59 AM UTC

AWS had and probably still has the least interesting and immature way of investing in new products of any organization with the resources it has. Apart from the early wave of AWS products virtually everything has been a dud. There are so many random AWS products that are live but basically dead because Amazon/AWS never invested enough into them. Totally predictable outcome. I’m not sure why Bezos made Andy Jassy CEO.

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by __alexs » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 7:01 AM UTC

coding123 wrote: post #10

Every AWS feature requires some stupid aws cli call that gives you 12 hours of usage. So every day depending on how many products you're using, you have stupid shit to run. Was codecommit like that

The timeout is configurable.

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by sluongng » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 7:02 AM UTC

bugsense wrote: post #8

Gitlab acquisition imminent?

Would be surprised if FTC is allowing that.

Re: AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

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Post by milch » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 7:14 AM UTC

simonw wrote: post #26

schoen wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes. As far as I can tell it's effectively an immutable ledger, a bit like a Git repository with signed commits. No proof of work or similar.

It's basically a schema-less database which you could query with SQL-ish syntax (PartiQL) and which provided additional views to let you query the history of changes. Git is a good analogy. I've never used the signing for anything but the ability to query the history makes it trivial to implement things like point in time recovery (essentially equivalent to a git checkout) or audit logs (essentially git blame or git log -p), which would otherwise require a much more complex schema in something like DynamoDB: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...